A settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Kansas City man killed in a 2016 shooting will require the gun dealer who sold the firearm used in the slaying to shut down.

A Jackson County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday approved the agreement between Alvino and Beverly Crawford and gun dealer Green Tip Arms in the wrongful death lawsuit the couple filed in June on behalf of their son, Alvino Dwight Crawford Jr.

The settlement agreement doesn’t impact the pending litigation related to any of the other defendants.

The Cass County couple accused the gun manufacturer Jimenez Arms, of Nevada, of knowingly selling firearms to an illegal dealer and failing to alert authorities even when they knew the firearms they sold were part of an illegal gun trafficking ring. Jimenez Arms recently filed for bankruptcy after it lost two motions to dismiss the Crawford’s lawsuit.

Also named as a defendant is James Samuels, a former Kansas City fire captain who faces federal charges of illegally selling numerous firearms to people he allegedly knew were felons.

Samuels, 53, allegedly purchased from Green Tip Arms the gun later used to kill Crawford.

The settlement agreement requires Green Tip Arms, a Missouri company with ties to Raytown, to surrender its federal firearms license to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and to dissolve the company.

Christopher Bendet, the owner of Green Tip Arms, has agreed not to sell firearms for profit at any time in the future and that any firearms sold from his personal collection will be subject to a background check, according to court records.

“Dwight’s life was precious and priceless, and Green Tips Arms fell short of a moral compass about the potential impact of its decisions,” Alvino and Beverly Crawford said in a written statement. “To protect other families from experiencing the enduring pain of loss as we have, we hope this action conveys a message to other gun dealers who chose to conduct business irresponsibly and without regard for human life.”

In their lawsuit, the couple noted that Kansas City has one of the highest homicide rates in the United States.

Guns manufactured by Jimenez Arms are often recovered from crime scenes, the petition says. Federal prosecutors have filed criminal cases where Jimenez Arms weapons were allegedly used in carjackings, high-speed car chases, drug deals and bank robberies, they alleged.

2016 murder

The lawsuit did not say how the weapon moved from Jimenez Arms to Green Tip Arms. But it said that Samuels, the former fire captain, purchased the weapon from Green Tip Arms on April 7, 2016.

Samuels then transferred the firearm to a woman who kept the weapon in her home. The gun became accessible to several people, including a convicted felon, Jerome Walker, 41, and Devon Davis, who was 16 at the time.

Crawford was killed 89 days after Samuels purchased the weapon, according to the lawsuit.

Walker and Davis were each later charged in the July 5, 2016 shooting death of 29-year-old Crawford. Prosecutors allege Walker struck Crawford with a baseball bat and, as Crawford stumbled away, Davis shot and killed him.

In October, Davis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

In January, Walker was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing.

The Crawfords were represented by local attorneys as well as attorneys from Everytown for Gun Safety, a national gun violence prevention organization.

The group assisted Kansas City in a civil lawsuit it filed in January against Jimenez Arms and other firearms businesses. In its lawsuit, the city accused the businesses of forming a trafficking ring that provided guns to known felons.

The legal action was the latest in a series of efforts taken by Mayor Quinton Lucas to curb gun violence in Kansas City.

Last year, the City Council passed a series of ordinances he championed meant to keep firearms out of the hands of minors and domestic abusers.