{"id":84701,"date":"2025-12-07T05:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84701\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:41:19","slug":"city-to-pay-unprecedented-30-million-to-family-of-16-year-old-boy-shot-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84701\/","title":{"rendered":"City to pay unprecedented $30 million to family of 16-year-old boy shot by police"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two<\/a>An image capturing the moment after a San Diego police officer shot Konoa Wilson outside Santa Fe Depot. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Police Department via YouTube)<\/p>\n

The city of San Diego has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a San Diego police officer while the teen was running away from gunshots fired by another person.<\/p>\n

The family\u2019s attorneys say is believed to be the largest settlement stemming from a police killing in U.S. history, it was announced Friday.<\/p>\n

Konoa Wilson\u2019s parents sued the city<\/a> and the officer who shot him, San Diego Police<\/a> Officer Daniel Gold, in connection with the teen\u2019s shooting death on the night of Jan. 28.<\/p>\n

According to the family\u2019s lawsuit, the boy was fleeing gunshots fired at him by another person when he encountered Gold, who shot the boy twice in the back \u201cinstantly, without any warning.\u201d Konoa was pronounced dead at a hospital less than an hour later.<\/p>\n

Attorneys representing the teen\u2019s family say the recently reached settlement figure eclipses the previous largest police killing settlement of $27 million paid out by Minneapolis to the family of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

The settlement amount was disclosed in a San Diego City Council agenda posted on Friday and will be formally considered by the council Tuesday. Representatives for the city could not be reached late Friday afternoon for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened to Konoa was a catastrophic failure of policing,\u201d the Wilson family\u2019s attorney, Nick Rowley, said in a statement. \u201cA 16-year-old boy was running for his life. He was not a threat and not a suspect, yet he was shot in the back by a police officer who only saw him for one second before deciding to pull the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Santa Fe Depot trolley station surveillance footage released by the police department earlier this year, Konoa can be seen running after another person pulls out a gun and opens fire on him at the station\u2019s west platform.<\/p>\n

Gold and another officer were in the area responding to an unrelated report of an assault when the gunshots rang out.<\/p>\n

The boy can be seen running down a corridor leading out of the station and emerging on Kettner Boulevard just as Gold was running towards the same corridor.<\/p>\n

Body-worn camera footage shows the officer immediately fire on the teen at close range. Rowley said Gold shot the boy \u201cbefore he even announced who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

After he was shot, the video shows the boy screaming and running briefly before collapsing. Officers then began performing CPR on him and, while doing so, found a handgun concealed under the youth\u2019s clothing near his right thigh, according to police.<\/p>\n

There were no indications in the video that the teen fired his gun during the incident or was holding it when Gold, a two-year member of the police department, opened fire on him.<\/p>\n

Rowley said the boy had the gun for self-defense, because he had recently been targeted and assaulted by gang members. The attorney said the gun was not believed to be loaded, but more importantly, was not brandished when he was shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis settlement brings some semblance of accountability, but not closure,\u201d Rowley\u2019s statement continued. \u201cYou don\u2019t get closure when your child is shot in the back for doing nothing wrong by the people who are supposed to be protecting him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that Konoa\u2019s story will send a message across the country: Cities will pay dearly when officers violate the law and take a life without justification. We expect the city of San Diego to ensure this never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The boy was killed three months shy of his 17th birthday. In a statement, attorneys said he was \u201can only child, and his parents lost their only son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said the person who fired gunshots at Konoa \u2014 described only as a 16-year-old juvenile \u2014 was arrested just over a week later.<\/p>\n

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