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Seattle CHOP trial: Jury deciding if city is liable in teen’s death
A King County jury is now tasked with deciding whether the city of Seattle bears legal responsibility for the death of Antonio Mays Jr., the 16-year-old whose unsolved killing led to the shutdown of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone in summer 2020.
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Trial in Seattle CHOP killing delayed until December
The trial in a lawsuit filed against the city of Seattle over the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest in 2020 has been pushed out at least a month.
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New Seattle CHOP videos contradict city’s narrative in unsolved killing
A father’s civil suit reveals videos that could change how the public views the unsolved, highly politicized death of his son. A trial set for next week could be the public’s last chance for answers.
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Northern State Hospital patients’ grave sites to get memorial, WA money
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Seattle CHOP killing: Lost evidence, official secrecy, a note home
Five years ago in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, a Black teenager was shot and killed in front of dozens of people. The killing and its aftermath — but not who was shooting — were caught on video, livestreamed to the world.
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5 years after CHOP in Seattle, teen’s shooting death is without answers
In the five years since Antonio Mays Jr.’s death, there have been no arrests, no charges filed, no answers. His father is now seeking redress.
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Seattle police sergeant investigated over leaked sex assault memo
A police watchdog investigation cleared a sergeant accused by Seattle police leadership of leaking a memo to the media about a sexual assault unit staffing crisis.
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Seattle mayor orders plan for stalled sexual assault investigations as advocates demand deadline
As frustrated advocates demanded a deadline for the city to fix stalled sexual assault investigations at the Seattle Police Department, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Thursday ordered that all felony cases with enough evidence for follow-up be assigned to detectives by the end of August.
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Seattle police watchdog investigating leak of memo detailing sexual assault staffing crisis
Seattle's Office of Police Accountability is investigating the leak of a memo detailing the severe understaffing of SPD's sexual assault and child abuse unit.
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says police sexual assault staffing woes, case backlog ‘unacceptable’
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell said Thursday the Seattle Police Department’s critically low staffing in its sexual assault unit was “unacceptable,” following an internal memo published by KUOW and The Seattle Times showing that it had stopped investigating most new sexual assault cases involving adults this year.