Back in 2018, welterweight contender Karim Mayfield was devastated to find out that his younger brother, 28-year-old Shaleem Tindle of Oakland, was fatally shot by BART police officers during a confrontation.

“My heart is aching right now, my little brother Shaleem was just murdered by Bart police in West Oakland yesterday,” Mayfield stated in the aftermath. "My Earth was shook before.”

According information initially obtained by the Mercury News, Tindle was shot by BART police across from the West Oakland station on the 1400 block of Seventh Street about 4:41PM. It was claimed by the officer that Tindle refused to drop a gun.

Another man, identified only as an Oakland resident, had been in a struggle with Tindle and was also wounded.

The paper reports that a woman who identified herself as Laquisha Stanley told reporters at the scene that Tindle had been arguing with the other man, whom she said was a friend of hers, and that Tindle was the one who shot her friend in the leg.

The pistol was recovered at the scene. The officer who shot Mayfield's brother was wearing a body camera that captured what happened.

Members of Mayfield and Tindle’s family argued that the police narrative was false and he had his back to the officer when shot.

A lawsuit began in 2018 - with family members alleging that body camera footage showed Tindle was unarmed when he was shot by BART officer Joseph Mateu.

And now two years later, a federal jury has ordered BART Police to pay more than $6 million in damages to Tindle's estate.

The jury awarded $6.34 million - about $5.7 million for violating his federal civil rights by using excessive force and $608,000 to his two children.

“The shooting was outrageous in that Tindle was shot in cold blood with his back to the officer while attempting to surrender by raising his empty left hand,” the family attorney said in a statement to the Mercury News.

According to the family attorney, Tindle couldn’t raise his hand because it was being held down by the other man in the struggle over the gun. They felt strongly that Mateu should have followed BART policy by giving a warning before firing his gun - which he never gave. Mateu was criminally cleared by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.