( CNN ) The family of a sword-carrying man who was killed in September has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Saratoga Springs , Utah , and the two officers who shot him . Darrien Hunt , 22 , was shot to death while carrying a 40-inch samurai-type sword . Prosecutors said that Hunt `` lunged '' at two officers , Cpl . Matt Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson and their actions were reasonable . The medical examiner 's autopsy report determined Hunt was shot six times , once in the back . The lawsuit alleges that under the Second Amendment , Hunt had a right to carry the sword and the two officers did not have a right to demand that he surrender . The suit contends that Hunt was shot while he was fleeing , that police used excessive force and that the officers ' actions `` manifested malicious , reckless , and callous indifference to the rights and very life of Darrien Hunt . '' `` They demanded that he give up his sword -- they had no right to do that . He was causing no harm , '' family attorney Robert Sykes said . `` They provoked an incident with this peaceful man . '' At a press conference on Friday , Sykes said the family will ask for more than $ 2 million in damages . Police and prosecutors say that their actions were justified . And they have rejected claims of racial profiling . The officers responded to a report of a `` suspicious individual walking around a local business with a 'samurai-type ' sword , '' Chief Deputy Tim Taylor of the prosecutor 's office said in a statement . Hunt was speaking with the police officers and was calm and nonconfrontational , according to Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman . He then `` abruptly and without any apparent provocation withdrew the sword from its sheath and immediately swung or stabbed it toward least one of the officers , '' Buhman said . In November , Buhman called the use of deadly force `` reasonable '' and said that no criminal prosecution would be brought against the officers . `` Preliminary evidence suggests that Mr. Hunt brandished the sword and lunged toward the officers with the sword , at which time Mr. Hunt was shot , '' Taylor said . CNN reached out to an attorney for the city , but did not receive an immediate response Friday . Hunt 's mother , Susan , told CNN affiliate KSL her son was killed because he was black . `` No white boy with a little sword would they shoot while he 's running away , '' she said . CNN 's Holly Yan , Jethro Mullen and Amanda Watts contributed to this report .
David Hunt was stabbed to death while brandishing a samurai - type sword . The family will sue for more than $ 2 million , says prosecutors . Prosecutors say Hunt lunged at them , but the family says he was shot while fleeing .