County settles over killing of suspected football bookie

By Tom Jackman
Washington Post
Jan. 14, 2011

"I beg your forgiveness Son," Anita Culosi wrote Tuesday night, "because I am not able . . . to go the distance. They call it . . . settlement. I call it something else . . . and because of that . . . my heart . . . is not settled . . . and my hope for justice . . . and my promise to you . . . have both been compromised." She wrote that the prospect of years of legal wrangling, even if the family prevailed at trial, had convinced them to end the case. [...]

The death of Salvatore J. Culosi, a 37-year-old optometrist who lived in the Fair Oaks area, sparked outrage over the use of a SWAT team to arrest a man suspected of the nonviolent crime of taking bets on football games. Fairfax police were aware that Culosi had no criminal history or connection to weapons. [...]

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