Family members of a Black car tragically shot by a lieutenant in western Washington state during a traffic stop have settled their wrongful death lawsuit for$ 3.5 million. The Clark County Council agreed Wednesday to make the transaction in the 2021 death of 30-year-old Jenoah Donald, The Columbian reported. Donald lived in the city of Battle Ground, Washington, and died Feb 12, eight weeks after he was shot in the head by Sean Boyle, a lieutenant with the Clark Sounty Sheriff’s Office. The family filed the federal complaint in 2022 in US District Court in Tacoma alleging unlawful suicide, assault and battery, incompetence and poverty of civil rights. Prosecution was set to start June 9. Lawyers for the Donald family said in a statement that the colony provides accountability and closing. ” This output honors Jenoah Donald‘s existence and reinforces a simple fact: When officials ignore their education and resort to senseless lethal force, they will be held accountable”, lawyer Angus Lee said in the speech. The region” continues to claim responsibility for this unlucky incident”, region spokeswoman Joni McAnally told the newspapers. Pursuing prosecutors from outdoor Clark County examined the killing and found it was justified in protecting the delegates. Deputies that evening responded to a call about two cars strangely driving around a community and pulled over Donald’s vehicles for what they described as a malfunctioning exterior lighting. Lawyers for Donald’s home argued in the complaint that was an immoral stop, citing a 1999 Washington Supreme Court case that found it is illegal for authorities to use a traffic stop as an excuse to check suspected criminal activity. The family’s lawyers said Donald was joint first. The condition escalated after another assistant, Holly Troupe, said she saw a sharp image inside Donald’s aircraft, which authorities later said was a hammer. A struggle ensued as Boyle and Troupe tried to pull Donald out of the vehicle, an outdoor research showed. Boyle fired double when Donald ignored instructions to let him go as the vehicle lurched forward with the lieutenant half in, according to researchers. One shot hit and killed Donald. Donald was on the autism spectrum and liable to departure in difficult situations, his attorneys have said. Donald was the second Black man killed by delegates in four weeks. On Oct 29, a law enforcement task force attempted a pharmaceutical bite involving 21-year-old Kevin Peterson Jr that ended with three deputies firing at Peterson as he ran ahead while carrying a gun. In 2022, Peterson’s relatives, who was represented by the same lawyers, brought legal action against the state. In exchange for the settlement, the state eventually agreed to pay his relatives$ 1.25 million. Additionally, the prosecution ruled that filming was justified.
