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Jury 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.

  • A jury ordered Seattle to pay over $30 million to the family of Antonio Mays Jr., 16, who was fatally shot during the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone due to the city's negligent emergency response.
  • Antonio Mays Jr. was shot in a stolen Jeep near the CHOP protest zone, with no arrests made or charges filed, despite witnesses saying armed protesters guarding the zone's barricades had fired at the vehicle.
  • Mays had traveled to Seattle from California to join the civil rights movement, leaving a note for his father saying he wanted to make him proud, but did not disclose his destination.
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The spokesman-Review broke the news in Spokane, United States on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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