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 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 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 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 MoreSEATTLE TIMES: In a court motion, the attorneys claim Officer Jason Anderson falsely testified that the front door was closed in the apartment where Charleena Lyles was fatally shot last year.
Read MoreKING 5 NEWS: A motion filed Monday claims Officer Jason Anderson gave false testimony about where he was standing when he shot and killed Charleena Lyles in 2017.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: Attorneys for Officers Jason Anderson and Steven McNew unsuccessfully argued there was no basis for negligence allegations, either in the officers’ planning before contacting Lyles or in their interaction with her.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A newly amended lawsuit alleges that weeks before Charleena Lyles was fatally shot by Seattle police, the nonprofit agency Solid Ground failed to report to law enforcement a playground incident in which she allegedly threatened children with a knife.
Read MoreKING 5 NEWS: The lawsuit calls Lyle's June 18 death "unnecessary, horrifying and preventable." The family of Charleena Lyles filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against the two Seattle officers involved in her shooting.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: A civil lawsuit was filed Friday against the two Seattle police officers who fatally shot Charleena Lyles in June. Attorneys representing Lyles’ estate say the suit is in response to the Seattle Police Department’s failure to release additional information about the shooting.
Read MoreKING 5: Attorneys representing Charles Lyles, father and representative of her estate, filed a claim Friday morning for wrongful death against the city. The claim asserts Seattle Police violated her civil rights, that its officers were negligent, and that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act, because she was mentally ill.
Read MoreSEATTLE TIMES: In a six-page claim filed Friday against the city of Seattle, attorneys representing the estate of Charleena Lyles say two Seattle police officers “lost their composure” when the pregnant mother of four began waving a knife or knives around, then failed to order her to drop her weapon and warn her they would shoot.
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