According to a New York Times report on Thursday, television network NBC has settled a $105 million lawsuit filed by the family of a man who supposedly committed suicide when faced with cameras for the TV show “To Catch a Predator.”

An NBC spokeswoman, Jenny Tartikoff, said in a statement that “the matter has been amicably resolved to the satisfaction of both parties.”

Patricia Conradt's lawsuit had claimed her brother hopelessly shot himself after being blamed of engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an adult posing as a 13-year-old boy.

The lawsuit accused NBC of convincing authorities to arrest Louis William Conradt Jr. after reporting to police that he had not showed up at a sting operation.

NBC collaborated on the sting with the militant group Perverted Justice and the actual plan consisted in people trying to impersonate children and establish online chats with men in order to try to lure them to a house where they would have been met by TV cameras and police.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin stated that the lawsuit had enclosed enough facts to make it reasonable that the suicide was predictable, that police should have prevented Conradt from taking his life and that the officers and NBC operated with conscious lack of interest.

The episodes of the television series “To Catch A Predator” ended last winter and the future of the documentary remains uncertain.

NBC spokeswoman Jenny Tartikoff said on Wednesday in an e-mail that they were working “on other investigative stories focusing on national security and the economy”.

“If we do more, we want to make sure we are complementing past investigations not just repeating them.”