Defective Body Armor Fails to Prevent Fatal Gunshot Wound

Case Overview

This case involves a police officer who was fatally shot on duty while making a traffic stop. At the time of the incident in question, the officer had pulled over a vehicle for an expired registration sticker. As the officer approached the car, the driver shot at him and sped off, striking him in several inches from the center of the chest. The bullet, a 9mm, was small enough for the vest to stop, however it failed to do so due to an allegedly defective design of its overlapping armored plates. Nevertheless, the manufacturer guaranteed that the vest would have stopped a 9mm bullet when it struck the location that the officer was shot in. The officer later died from his wounds.