The family of a man who was fatally shot by a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy while legally armed filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both the deputy and the department.

Tyrone Glover, an attorney representing the family of Jalin Seabron, said during a news conference Tuesday that he hoped to work with Douglas County officials to find some way to bring justice to Seabron’s family, whether that be through policy change and additional training, or financial compensation from a civil trial.

“You have a right to not be seized through excessive force, to not be gunned down because of overzealous, excessive police use of force,” Glover said. “Jalin’s life mattered … (the deputy) did not give Jalin an opportunity to comply, he did not verify that Jalin indeed was the potential shooter he was there for.”

Seabron, 23 at the time, was shot and killed by Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Moore on Feb. 8, 2025, in the parking lot of the Highlands Ranch Main Event, located in the 60 block of Centennial Boulevard. Moore was one of several deputies responding to a report of a shooting inside the entertainment center building that Seabron was not involved with.

Seabron was legally carrying a gun, and was carrying it to protect himself and his pregnant girlfriend, who was in the car with him, from the alleged shooter, family members said. Moore, six seconds after arriving to the scene and three seconds after giving commands from behind Seabron, shot the man seven times in the back and side.

Sheriff’s office officials said that Seabron pointed a handgun with an illegal magazine “towards several people” and that he was an accomplice of the alleged shooter, later identified as 23-year-old Nevaeha Crowley-Sanders. Seabron’s family denied the officials’ report, saying police were conflating the two incidents and had been giving the public an “inconsistent narrative.”

Moore was found justified in the shooting by both the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office and an internal review. Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly also previously gave support for the officer’s decision to open fire.

“He acted to protect lives in a dangerous active shooter situation,” Weekly said. “In accordance with the statutory justifications, a peace officer is justified in using deadly physical force if the suspect poses an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to the peace officer or another person.”

The office declined to comment on Tuesday’s lawsuit.

“I can only imagine what my son’s body looked like after those bullets tore through him,” Veronica Seabron, Jalin’s mother, said Tuesday. “To have to sit through this past year and think about that, (it) hurts. I can almost feel where every shock went through his body, and that hurts my soul.”

Veronica also added that Seabron would have turned 24 years old on Friday.

Seabron’s partner, Keylonie Fenery, who was pregnant with his unborn son at the time of the shooting, briefly spoke before she got too choked up to continue. Fenery’s 4-month-old son, Jalin Jr., was also present.

Fenery was one of about a dozen people, most of them Seabron’s family members, standing on the west side of the Douglas County Justice Center in Castle Rock Tuesday afternoon. A bustling southbound wind snapped through three flags strung up on white poles above where the family stood.

One of those flags was blue and emblazoned with the Douglas County Sheriff’s logo on it. The sound of its flapping at times nearly drowned out the speakers.

While the litigation still could end up in a civil court proceeding, during which a six-person jury would only be able to decide on financial compensation as a means of providing justice to the family, Glover said that he was optimistic that the county could be willing to find more “creative” ways to come to an agreement, including implementing more training or changing policy.

“Oftentimes in smaller, more involved municipalities or cities, they have the ability and sometimes the appetite to be a bit more creative with how they deliver justice to families,” Glover said. “I know that Douglas County, they are very involved, they are very present in their communities. So I think if the appetite is there and they want to do right by this family, they certainly can.”

But, Glover added, Seabron’s family is also committed to finding a level of justice they feel is worthy of the trouble they have endured since his killing.

“If they want to just buckle down, circle the wagons and fight, this family has been fighting since day one,” Glover said. “And we will continue to fight.”