Charleena Lyles shooting

On a balmy Monday evening, children played games and danced in an open field at Sandpoint Magnuson Park. This would have resembled any other summer night…

A Seattle nonprofit is no longer part of a lawsuit filed by the family of Charleena Lyles. A King County judge dismissed Solid Ground from the wrongful…

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“Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.” Gunshots, no doubt, J.C. thought. It was 9:49 a.m. on Father’s Day, and he was watching a soccer match on T.V.…

A citizens group wants the city of Seattle to investigate management of the low-income housing complex where Charleena Lyles was shot.The nonprofit Solid…

An attorney for the family of Charleena Lyles says a police review board’s finding that Seattle officers acted within department policy when they shot her…

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Friday against the two Seattle police officers who shot Charleena Lyles.Attorneys for her father, Charles Lyles, says…

Seven bullets riddled Charleena Lyles’ body earlier this summer when she was shot by Seattle police.Those bullets struck her chest and arm and dug into…

The family of Charleena Lyles has filed a legal claim against the city of Seattle. Lyles, an African American mother of four, was fatally shot by police…

Charleena Lyles was buried Monday.Lyles’ friends and family filled the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Seattle’s Central District for her funeral,…