US EditionJury Awards More than $30M to Family of Teen Killed During 2020 CHOP Protest
A King County jury awarded $30.5 million after finding Seattle negligent in emergency response to a fatal CHOP shooting that occurred during a 2020 protest.
- After 12 days of deliberation, a King County jury found the City of Seattle negligent in its emergency response, ordering payment of more than $30.5 million to Antonio Mays Sr. and Mays Jr.'s estate.
- On June 29, 2020, Mays was shot after a white Jeep crashed into Capitol Hill Organized Protest barricades near the abandoned East Precinct, following earlier shootings including Horace Lorenzo Anderson, 19.
- Because first responders wouldn't enter CHOP, 911 callers used private vehicles and volunteer CHOP medics to transport the wounded, meeting Seattle Fire Department medics about 24 minutes later.
- Jurors answered the court's causation question by finding the city's negligence caused Mays Jr.'s death after King County Superior Court Judge Sean O'Donnell barred the city's felony-defense argument.
- The lawsuit filed in 2023 and updated in 2023 added Carmen Best and Harold Scoggins, while Antonio Mays Sr. said his grief halted night market sales and hopes the shooter is prosecuted.
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Seattle ordered to pay over $30 million for fatal shooting of teen in 2020 protest
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Seattle CHOP verdict: City must pay $30.5 million to family of slain teen
After deliberating for 12 days, a King County jury has found that the city of Seattle was negligent in its emergency response to the fatal shooting of a teenager at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, in 2020.Jurors decided to answer “yes” to two questions the court posed to them: whether the city was negligent in its response to the shooting and, if so, whether this negligence caused Antonio Mays Jr.’s death. The city of Seattle will h…
Jury awards nearly $31M to family of teen killed during 2020 Seattle CHOP protest
(The Center Square) – A King County jury on Thursday found the city of Seattle negligent in its handling of the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, zone, awarding nearly $31 million to the family of 16-year-old Antonio Mays…
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