TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Jury selection is expected to begin Wednesday in the wrongful-death civil suit filed against the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Police Department by the parents of an undercover informant killed during a botched drug deal.

Rachel Hoffman, 23, was killed May 7, 2008 during a drug deal gone awry.

Hoffman, trying to work off an earlier drug arrest, was working as a confidential informant for the Tallahassee Police Department.

TPD gave Hoffman thousands of dollars in which she was to use to buy drugs at Forest Meadows park off of Meridian Road in Tallahassee. Hoffman was to meet with two known dealers, Denelio Bradshaw and Andrea Green.

Instead of making the deal inside the park, police say Hoffman disobeyed police orders and instead followed Bradshaw and Green to another location where police lost trace of Hoffman. That is where Bradshaw and Green then shot Hoffman five times, execution style.

Hoffman's body, along with her Volvo car, would not be found until two days later in a rural area in Taylor County, Florida.
 
In 2009 Denelio Bradshaw and Andrea Green were both sentenced to life in prison for Hoffman's death.

Nearly four years after Hoffman's murder, her story again will take center stage inside of a Leon County courtroom. That is where the civil case against the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Police Department will unfold.

Hoffman's parents, Margie Weiss and Irv Hoffman, have filed a wrongful-death suit against the city and TPD saying they are to blame for their only daughter's death. The city has refuted that in past, saying Hoffman ignored officer's directions and put herself into harm's way.

Jury selection is expected to begin Wednesday, January 4.

ABC27HD News and WTXL.tv will provide updates of the proceedings as they continue.