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Sonoma County to pay $3 million to family of boy who was toting fake gun when he was killed by deputy

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Sonoma County has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit with the parents of a 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy who was fatally shot in 2013 by a sheriff’s deputy who mistook the boy’s plastic gun for an AK-47.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleged that Sonoma County Sheriff’s…