The Metropolitan Police of London will compensate the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who police officers shot and killed in 2005 mistakenly believing he was a suicide bomber.

“The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and representatives of the de Menezes family are pleased to announce that all litigation between them arising out of the tragic death of Jean Charles de Menezes has been resolved,” according to a joint statement released Monday.

De Menezes, a Brazilian national working in London as an electrician, was late for work July 22, 2005, and running to catch a train, when armed police officers trained to sneak up on suicide bombers and shoot them in the head with hollow point bullets approached him and shot him seven times. Ironically he was running late because the Tube station nearest his apartment was closed after the previous day’s failed attempt to bomb the Underground and he had to take a bus to another Tube station.

He had been living in the same apartment building as Osman Hussein, one of the suicide bombers from the previous day’s failed bombing. Hussein was later captured in Rome.

When de Menezes left for work that day, surveillance teams, working from a poor quality photo of Hussein, could not be sure of his identity, and firearms officers, meant to stop and identify people leaving the building, had not yet arrived. The surveillance team then followed de Menezes. When the firearms officers caught up with them at the Stockwell Tube station, surveillance officers told them, “That’s him,” a miscommunication which would lead to de Menezes being fatally shot.

Officers had been working under a policy known as Operation Kratos, which essentially amounts to shoot first, ask questions later. Under this policy, armed police can immediately open fire once they have positively identified a suicide bomber. No significant change has been made to the policy, though police officers now receive more training and better communications equipment.

In 2006, the Independent Police Complaints Commission decided that the officers in the shooting would not face criminal charges.

And in a 2008 inquest into the shooting, the jury returned an open verdict, saying they did not believe the version of events given by police. Among other things, police and eyewitnesses on the train disagreed about whether police officers identified themselves before the shooting. The coroner had instructed the jury that they could not bring a verdict of unlawful killing.

“The members of the family are pleased that a compensation package has been agreed which enables them to put these events behind them and move forward with their lives,” the statement said. The compensation amount has not been disclosed.

“The Commissioner would like to take this opportunity of making a further unreserved apology to the family for the tragic death of Jean Charles de Menezes and to reiterate that he was a totally innocent victim and in no way to blame for his untimely death.”