Sam Kolb in 2013 (left) and in 2018 after becoming paralyzed from a Placer County deputy shooting. Photo: Sam Kolb SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California county has agreed to pay nearly $10 million to settle a lawsuit by a Silicon Valley software engineer who was having a mental health crisis when a deputy shot him, paralyzing him from the waist down.Placer County agreed to pay Samuel Kolb, 50, and his family $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit the family filed after a deputy shot him twice on Jan.
14, 2018, inside a North Lake Tahoe rental cabin where Kolb and his teenage son were vacationing, Kolb said.“There’s a measure of relief in not having to go through this and not having to put my family through any more legal challenges.