153368P.pdf   05/15/2017  Sharon Dooley  v.  Jon Tharp
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3368
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Davenport   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Murphy, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Viewing the evidence in the light most 
   favorable to plaintiffs and considering the totality of the circumstances 
   leading up to defendant Tharp's decision to shoot plaintiffs' decedent, 
   the district court did not err in concluding that Officer Tharp's use of 
   deadly force was objectively reasonable as a matter of law and that he was 
   entitled to summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds; a reasonable 
   officer in Tharp's position could believe that the victim was pointing his 
   gun at officers and that they were at risk of serious harm; nor did the 
   district court err in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiffs' 
   state tort claims for assault and battery and negligence as the force used 
   was reasonable and permitted under Iowa law.