 This is WFMD News. A $1 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit that accused West Virginia State Police troopers of using excessive force on a Washington County man who was walking along an interstate in Berkeley County. The judge approved the settlement for the estate of Edmund X. Line on Tuesday. The lawsuit said he died at a hospital after three troopers tackled and handcuffed him and used a taser to immobilize him on February 12, 2023, along Interstate 81 near Martinsburg.