PITTSBURGH -- A state trooper whose shooting of an unarmed Uniontown boy cost the state $12.5 million has cost a state police insurance carrier $250,000 to settle another civil rights suit.

Attorneys for 28-year-old Christopher Strothers and Trooper Samuel Nassan settled the case in September, but had said terms were confidential. But documents recording the settlement became known Thursday under Pennsylvania's Right-to-Know Law.

Strothers claimed Nassan broke his ankle when Nassan roughly intervened as Pittsburgh police tried to stop a fight between Strothers and his girlfriend.

Nassan is also being sued by the family of a Pittsburgh motorist he shot during a drunken-driving patrol in March.

The multimillion-dollar settlement for the shooting of 12-year-old Michael Ellerbe in 2002 remains the largest in state police history.

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