Justine Damond Settlement Could Increase Property Taxes: Report

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis taxpayers will feel the impact of the city's $20 million settlement with the family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, the woman killed by former police officer Mohamed Noor.

The agreement was settled after Noor was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder May 1. The money will come from the city's self-insurance fund.

The massive payout could lead to an increase in property taxes down the line, according to one city official.

"That money is going to have to be replenished, and that's going to come from property taxes primarily," Carol Becker, chair of the city's Board of Estimate and Taxation, told the Star Tribune.

"People's levies are going to go up."

Noor fatally shot 40-year-old bride-to-be Damond — originally from Sydney, Australia — on July 15, 2017 in Minneapolis.

Damond was killed minutes after she made a 911 call to report a disturbance behind her Minneapolis home. She lived on Washburn Avenue South with her fiancé, Don Damond, 50, whom she had planned to marry in August 2017, one month after the shooting occurred.

Read much more about the settlement at the Star Tribune.