SEATTLE TIMES: Two Seattle police officers were justified when they shot and killed Charleena Lyles and had no other reasonable alternative when they pulled the trigger, a unanimous King County coroner’s jury decided Wednesday after a two-week inquest into her 2017 death.
Read MoreMyNorthwest - Seattle Children’s Hospital (SCH) shocked the public in November 2019 when the CEO admitted the hospital had been contaminated with Aspergillus mold since 2001, which was the cause of death for six patients.
Read MoreAP: An inquest jury found Wednesday that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant, Black mother of four children inside her apartment when she menaced them with knives in 2017.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: The jury in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Charleena Lyles heard wrenching testimony Tuesday about how one of Lyles’ young children had crawled on top of his mother, who lay face down and dying after being shot seven times by police.
Read MoreCHANNEL5 BELIZE: It took a long time coming, but on Friday the family of an American man killed in Belize eight years ago finally got some justice. A jury in Washington State found Tracy Nessl guilty for committing battery against her uncle, Timothy McNamara, who she was also in an incestuous relationship with.
Read MoreCNN - The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother of four who was shot and killed in her home by police in 2017. The case was set to go to trial in February 2022, but the settlement was reached on Monday, according to a news release from the lawyers representing Lyles’ family and estate.
Read MoreKING5 — A $3.5 million settlement was reached in the wrongful-death lawsuit over the 2017 killing of Charleena Lyles by two Seattle Police Department officers, according to the family’s attorney Karen Koehler.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES - The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the children of Charleena Lyles, a Black mother of four who was fatally shot by two Seattle police officers in June 2017. Karen Koehler, a Seattle attorney who represented Lyles’ estate, said the case was scheduled to go to trial in King County Superior Court in February before the settlement was reached Monday night.
Read MoreThe Stranger - Attorneys representing the family of Charleena Lyles announced today that the City of Seattle agreed to a $3.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Seattle Police Department and two white officers who shot and killed Lyles in her north Seattle home on June 18, 2017. She had called the cops to report a burglary.
Read MoreKING5 — A Washington state appeals court has upheld a lower court order requiring public health departments to release to KING 5 documents related to Aspergillus mold infections at Seattle Children’s hospital.
Read MoreKING 5 - Tracy Nessl talks with KING 5's Linda Byron in her home in Soap Lake, Washington. Belize has issued a warrant for Nessl's arrest for allegedly murdering Tim McNamara, her uncle and the man she considered to be her husband.
Read MoreKOMO: Law enforcement letting protesters stay on I-5 became a deciding factor during a court hearing Friday involving the wrongful death lawsuit of Summer Taylor. Taylor was killed when an alleged wrong way driver drove into a Black Lives Matter march taking place July 4 in the middle of the highway in downtown Seattle.
Read MoreKING 5: A new lawsuit says the city of Seattle and Washington state failed to protect protesters from drivers who could injure or kill them while also allowing protesters to be injured by the police response. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit announced Friday include the family of Summer Taylor, who was killed by a driver on I-5 in July, and protester Daniel Gregory, who was shot during a demonstration on Capitol Hill in June.
Read MoreKUOW: A group of protesters is suing the city of Seattle and the state of Washington for wrongful injuries, and, in one case, a wrongful death in this year's Black Lives Matter protests. The lawsuit says that the city of Seattle and the state of Washington are responsible for Summer Taylor’s death on July 4. It also claims that multiple factors contributed to negligence on the part of the Seattle Police Department as it was responding to protests in May, June, and July.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A lawsuit filed Friday in King County Superior Court alleges the city of Seattle and Washington state failed to protect protesters from drivers who could hurt or kill them while also allowing protesters to be injured by the police response. The plaintiffs in the case include the family of Summer Taylor, who was killed by a driver on Interstate 5 in July, and protester Daniel Gregory, who was shot and injured during a demonstration on Capitol Hill in June.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Twelve people, or their families, who were injured or killed in Seattle protests over the past six weeks, filed financial claims Monday against the city of Seattle, King County and Washington state, alleging excessive force by police or the failure of police to secure the safety of peaceful protesters.
Read MoreKIRO 7: The father of 24-year-old Summer Taylor, the protester who was killedon I-5 early Saturday morning, called for King County detective Mike Brown to be fired immediately for Facebook posts that seemed to make light of the fatal crash. “There are a lot of hateful people saying hateful things about my child who’s gone,” Matt Taylor said Wednesday. “Including people at the King County Sheriff’s (Office).”
Read MoreSOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD: Three years ago, two Seattle police officers arrived at the home of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old pregnant mother of four. Lyles had called them — she was afraid that there was a burglary in progress at her housing complex in Sand Point.
Read MoreKING 5 NEWS: Fire Chief Warren Peterson of Olympia turned to Labor and Industries after nearly dying in a work-related accident. But instead of help, the state put up roadblocks.
Read MoreKING 5: A class action complaint has been filed against Seattle Children's Hospital on behalf of four former patients, three of whom died, due to complications from Aspergillus mold infections while being cared for at the hospital. Lawyers from SKKM Law Office in Seattle and the John Layman Law Firm in Spokane announced the suit during a press conference Monday afternoon in Seattle.
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