BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The girlfriend of a Louisiana man fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy at a motel is suing in federal court, saying the couple’s civil rights were violated.

Jessica Clouatre filed suit in U.S. District Court against the West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s office and the deputy who shot her boyfriend, 38-year-old Josef Richardson, The Advocate reported Monday. The newspaper said the sheriff’s office declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Richardson died in July 2019 after being shot in the neck by Deputy Vance Matranga. Sheriff’s deputies conducting a narcotics operation served a “no-knock” warrant at Richardson’s room at a motel in Port Allen. Clouatre was in the room and witnessed the shooting.

Prosecutors declined to charge Matranga and concluded the shooting was justified after deputies involved told investigators that Richardson reached for his waistband and turned toward them as a deputy tried to cuff him. Clouatre has said Richardson was trying to surrender.

It’s the second federal lawsuit filed this year in the July 2019 shooting. Richardson’s family filed a wrongful death suit in March, arguing Richardson was unarmed and wearing only underwear when he was killed.