A federal lawsuit against Joliet over the 2020 in-custody death of Eric Lurry has settled, but specific details are not yet known.

The court docket on Monday said the “parties have reached a settlement agreement” in a lawsuit case that alleged several Joliet police officers caused Lurry, 37, to die while he was in their custody.

The officers were accused in the lawsuit of failing to provide Lurry prompt medical care when he was overdosing on drugs he had placed in his mouth. They also were accused of subjecting Lurry to excessive force.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings reviewed a magistrate judge’s court order indicating the “parties have reached an agreement to resolve this case and anticipate filing dismissal paperwork in due course,” according to the court docket.

A status hearing to monitor the case has been set for May 22.

The lawsuit was filed Aug. 3, 2020, by Lurry’s widow, Nicole Lurry. The case was filed roughly a month after CBS2 Chicago revealed the controversial police squad video of Lurry following his Jan. 28, 2020, arrest in a narcotics investigation.

In the video, Joliet Police Sgt. Doug May is seen slapping a handcuffed Lurry in the face. May said, “Wake up, [expletive]!” and pinched Lurry’s nose shut to get him to open his mouth.

The video led to protests in the city during the summer of 2020. It also prompted former Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk and other Joliet City Council members to seek a second investigation into the incident.

Instead of a second investigation, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s Office opened a sweeping civil rights investigation of the Joliet Police Department.

Raoul’s office issued a report in 2024 that said the department engaged in “patterns of unlawful policing.”

On May 7, 2025, Cummings issued a summary judgment ruling that found many of the claims in Lurry’s lawsuit were legally sufficient for a trial.

In the ruling, Cummings said May admitted his strike to Lurry’s face was “unwarranted,” and Joliet Police Officer Jose Tellez “intentionally turned off the squad camera” after seeing the strike because he “knew it was inappropriate to strike someone in handcuffs.”

Cummings found there was sufficient evidence for a trial on whether the officers’ delay in seeking medical care for Lurry caused him harm. He also ruled that a jury could find officers’ unlawful use of force toward Lurry was recklessly unsafe.

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow’s Office cleared the officers of any wrongdoing over Lurry’s death.

In a statement in 2021, Glasgow said an independent, board-certified forensic pathologist conducted the autopsy on Lurry and concluded his death was caused by his ingestion of fatal amounts of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.

Glasgow said the forensic pathologist watched the video of the police interaction with Lurry and concluded: “nothing the officers did contributed in any way to Mr. Lurry’s death.”

“Mr. Lurry, a felon who served prison time for multiple offenses dating back to 1998, voluntarily chose to ingest the fatal doses of these illicit drugs while sitting in the back seat of a police vehicle after being apprehended by the Joliet Police Department for distributing drugs to another individual on [Jan. 28, 2020],” Glasgow said.