OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Schools board has approved a $250,000 settlement with the mother of seventh-grader who drowned at a middle school in 2014.

The district voted in favor of the settlement Monday night.

Demariont’e Brown-Elliott was found in Nathan Hale Middle School’s pool during gym class in November 2014.

Adrienne Elliott filed a $1 million claim against the district last January, alleging that her 12-year-old son died because of negligence by district employees and administrators who failed to ensure student safety and properly supervise the swim class.

The district admits no wrongdoing or liability in the settlement, which also bars Elliott and her attorneys from speaking publicly about the claims.

The district also agreed to pay $5,000 for the boy’s funeral services.

On January 4, 2016, at 11:35 a.m., members of the Lincoln Police Department and Lincoln Fire & Rescue responded to the report of shots fired and a man injured in the 1300 block of N. 20th Street.

Officers found 27-year-old James William Carr lying in front of 1337 N. 20th Street, with multiple gunshot wounds. He was declared deceased at the scene. It is not known how many times James Carr was shot. An autopsy has been scheduled for January 5, 2016.

Through further investigation, 24-year-old Matthew Pavey was developed as a suspect. He had been talking outside with the victim just prior to the shots. The two men have had an on-going feud with one another. Matthew Pavey taken into custody at 2:30 p.m. at a residence in the 2900 block of S. 11th Street. He was later arrested for 1st degree Murder and Use of a Weapon to Commit a Felony. He was lodged at the Lancaster County Jail.

The investigation is on-going. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact an LPD investigator at 402.441.6000 or submit information anonymously via Crime Stoppers, 402.475.3600.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Lincoln, suspected of shooting to death another man who police say died in an alley.

Authorities say police officers and medics were dispatched around 11:35 a.m. Monday to the report of a shooting. They found the wounded man in the alley just east of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus. He was pronounced dead there.

Police say witness statements led officers to the man, who was arrested Monday afternoon.

Online court records don’t show that the man has been charged yet.

NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a 57-year-old man who died after his all-terrain vehicle broke through ice on a pond in northeast Nebraska.

On Monday the Madison County Sheriff’s Department identified him as Randall Simpson, of rural Norfolk. Rescuers pulled him from the pond late Saturday afternoon. He was pronounced dead later at a hospital.

Authorities say Simpson was unable to get his seat belt disconnected as the ATV sank into the icy water.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police are investigating the shooting death of a man just east of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City Campus.

Officer Katie Flood says officers were dispatched to check a report of a shooting at 11:35 a.m. Monday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Flood says officers are poring over the neighborhood, looking for witnesses and evidence. She would not confirm that the man was a homicide victim.

No arrests have been reported.

University police urged students and staffers to avoid the area during the city officers’ investigation.