correction
An earlier version of this article failed to include the first two shots fired by Officer Clayton Jenison. They were fired as the van backed out of the garage. The article has been corrected.
About six weeks after an Overland Park, Kan., police officer fired 13 shots into a minivan driven by an unarmed 17-year-old in 2018, killing him, the city paid the officer $70,000 in a severance agreement, the teen’s mother recently discovered.
The killing of John Albers by Clayton Jenison, in the driveway of Albers’s family home in a suburb of Kansas City, was captured by two police dash cameras and a Ring home security camera across the street. Jenison claimed that he thought Albers, whose friends called police because they believed he was suicidal, was going to run him over, though the videos showed Jenison was never in the van’s path. It was not clear, until the shooting started, that Albers ever knew Jenison was outside the family’s home in the prosperous suburb of Johnson County, Kan.
