{"id":88929,"date":"2025-12-10T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88929\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:16:13","slug":"san-diego-officials-ok-30m-settlement-after-police-shooting-of-teen-konoa-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88929\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego officials OK $30M settlement after police shooting of teen Konoa Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 The San Diego City Council on Tuesday approved a $30 million payment to the family of a 16-year-old killed by police in one of the largest such settlements in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

The settlement exceeds the $27 million the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the family of George Floyd,<\/a> whose May 2020 murder by a police officer who knelt on his neck sparked a nationwide racial reckoning.<\/p>\n

Surveillance and body-worn camera<\/a> footage from Jan. 28 showed Konoa Wilson running away from someone who pulled a gun and fired at him in a downtown train station. As he exited the station, Wilson encountered San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit against the city and Gold, the family alleged the officer \u201cinstantly, without any warning,\u201d fired two shots at Wilson as he ran by, striking him in the upper body. The lawsuit identified Wilson as Black.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Henry Foster III became emotional when speaking about the shooting, sharing his fears about the dangers that Black youth face: \u201cIf only you could understand the fear I feel when my son leaves the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKanoa\u2019s life was taken while fleeing from gunshots, and he found himself running into the arms of a police officer. This should not have happened,\u201d Foster said. <\/p>\n

He also questioned the state of reform since Floyd\u2019s death: \u201cWhere\u2019s the progress? Where\u2019s the protect and serve? Better yet, where\u2019s the accountability?\u201d<\/p>\n

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He challenged Mayor Todd Gloria and Police Chief Scott Wahl to do better.<\/p>\n

Lt. Cesar Jimenez, a spokesperson for the San Diego Police Department, said Gold is currently on an administrative assignment while the shooting is under investigation.<\/p>\n

The department in releasing the body camera footage stated that officers found a gun under Wilson\u2019s clothing as they administered first aid, though the teen did not pull it out before being shot by Gold. <\/p>\n

The lawsuit said Gold did not announce he was a police officer until after shooting him in the back. It said Wilson was running past the officer \u201cin an attempt to get to a place of safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson was pronounced dead less than an hour after he was taken to the hospital. <\/p>\n

The family\u2019s attorney, Nick Rowley, said the settlement \u201cbrings some semblance of accountability, but not closure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\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,\u201d he said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. \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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 The San Diego City Council on Tuesday approved a $30 million payment to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,49509,47554,18,14796,46777,734,1016,1015,33117,47728,46032,16,14798,74,76,75,8875,2036,17],"class_list":["post-88929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-cesar-jimenez","tag-daniel-gold","tag-general-news","tag-george-floyd","tag-henry-foster-iii","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lawsuits","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-nick-rowley","tag-police-brutality","tag-race-and-ethnicity","tag-racial-injustice","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-scott-wahl","tag-teens","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}