A man called Unified police after sundown on a March day to report a woman was lying down in a parking lot near his workplace in Millcreek. He said she was wearing dark clothes, told the dispatcher he was worried and specified that “that he would hate to see the individual run over.”
But when a Unified officer arrived to check out the situation, that’s exactly what happened.
Officer Megan Franklin hit Cindrea Europe, dragged her 45 feet underneath the patrol car, and struck her again after Europe had fallen free and Franklin turned the car. The 23-year-old later died in the parking lot that night, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court.