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Sunday, November 27, 2022
ASU building delivers ‘wow’ factor to Mesa BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
NEWS................... 13 This is no ordinary apartment hi-rise coming to downtown Mesa.
COMMUNITY ..... 16 This Mesa man really is a Rhodes Scholar.
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he City of Mesa and Arizona State University’s $100 million Media and Immersive eXperience Center building in downtown Mesa is nearing the end of its first semester of hosting students in film, media arts and emerging technology after opening in August. ASU said 700 students currently use the facilities at the MIX Center, and beginning this fall, college students could be seen stepping off light rail or crossing 1st Street
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PHX East Valley Partnership members were wowed this month by the state-of-the-art theater in the new Arizona State University Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in downtown Mesa that is the home of the Sidney Poitier New American Film School and part of the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
Mesa pays $8M to widow of ex-cop’s victim BUSINESS ........... 19 One of Mesa's oldest businesses is celebrating an anniversary. COMMUNITY .............................. 16 BUSINESS ................................... 19 OPINION ..................................... 20 GET OUT ...................................... 23 CLASSIFIED ............................... 30 ZONE 2
BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer
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esa has agreed to pay $8 million to Daniel Shaver’s widow and two children to settle her claims against the city over his 2016 shooting death at an east Mesa hotel by former Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford. Attorneys for Shaver’s widow Laney Sweet filed a notice of settlement Nov. 22 in the U.S. District Court of Arizona that
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stated the parties had reached the settlement following mediation held in July. Sweet had been seeking damages of $75 million. The city settled wrongful death claims with Shaver’s parents in 2021 for $1.5 million. In a case that gained national attention, an unarmed Shaver was shot five times with an AR-15 rifle as he crawled toward officers in a hotel hallway during his arrest. Brailsford opened fire after Shaver ap-
peared to reach toward his waist. Lawyers for Sweet said Shaver was trying to pull up his loose-fitting gym shorts. Shaver appeared confused by instructions during the arrest and said “please don’t shoot me” before Brailsford gunned him down. Brailsford was charged with seconddegree murder by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and fired by the Mesa
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