The Henderson City Council on Tuesday approved a $275,000 settlement for the family of a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed while being held hostage during a 2020 standoff. Joseph Hawatmeh was killed after Henderson Police Department officers fired 28 rounds into a vehicle he was in on Nov. 3, 2020, outside an apartment complex in the 1400 block of Stonelake Cove Avenue, near North Stephanie Street and Wigwam Parkway. Police at the time said the boy’s captor, Jason Bourne, shot and killed Joseph’s mother, Dianne Hawatmeh, 38, and Veronica Muniz, 33. Bourne also shot the boy’s sister, Yasmeen Hawatmeh, rendering her a paraplegic before taking Joseph hostage in a SUV owned by the family while still holding the gun. According to a 2024 lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court by Joseph’s father Iehab Hawatmeh and other relatives, the SWAT team was called to respond to the hostage situation, but police had already shot and killed Bourne and Joseph by the time SWAT personnel arrived at the scene.…