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Alan Weber, 54, was fatally shot while holding a sword in each hand by police in his East Northport home. This framegrab is from an officer's body-cam video, moments before Weber was shot. Credit: New York Attorney General Suffolk County lawmakers agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of an East Northport man fatally shot by police in the basement of his home in 2023. Alan Weber, 54, was fatally shot while holding a sword in each hand, according to prior reports . Weber, who had been an elite fencer in the 1990s, suffered from a long history of mental illness, according to the complaint filed in December 2024 in U.S.
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1 dead โ Alan Weber, 54 One officer discharged his Taser twice when Weber โ who was wearing a fencing mask โ did not put the swords down, according to the report, which includes bodycam video from both officers.
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