Family of Black man fatally shot by Washington sheriff's deputy settles lawsuit for $3.5 million

Family members of a Black motorist fatally changeable by a lawman successful southwestern Washington authorities during a postulation halt person settled their wrongful decease lawsuit for $3.5 million. The Clark County Council agreed Wednesday to marque the outgo successful the 2021 decease of 30-year-old Jenoah Donald, The Columbian reported. Donald lived successful the metropolis of Battle Ground, Washington, and died Feb 12, 8 days aft helium was changeable successful the caput by Sean Boyle, a lawman with the Clark Sounty Sheriff's Office. The household filed the national suit successful 2022 successful US District Court successful Tacoma alleging wrongful death, battle and battery, negligence and deprivation of civilian rights. Trial was acceptable to commencement June 9. Attorneys for the Donald household said successful a connection that the colony provides accountability and closure. "This result honors Jenoah Donald's beingness and underscores a elemental truth: When officers disregard their grooming and edifice to needless lethal force, they volition beryllium held accountable," lawyer Angus Lee said successful the statement. The region "continues to contradict liability for this unfortunate incident," region spokeswoman Joni McAnally told the newspaper. Prosecuting attorneys from extracurricular Clark County examined the shooting and recovered it was justified successful protecting the deputies.

Deputies that nighttime responded to a telephone astir 2 cars suspiciously driving astir a vicinity and pulled implicit Donald's car for what they described arsenic a faulty rear light. Lawyers for Donald's household argued successful the suit that was an unlawful stop, citing a 1999 Washington Supreme Cou...