SEATTLE — Two Seattle Police officers were justified when they shot and killed Charleena Lyles and had no other reasonable alternative when they pulled the trigger, according to a unanimous King County Coroner's jury after a two-week inquest into her 2017 death.
The decision was met with an angry outburst by Lyles' father, who hollered "(Expletive) you! (Expletive) you! You killed my daughter!" as he was expelled from the courtroom by inquest administrator Michael Spearman, who apologized to the six-member jury.
The two police officers, Jason Anderson and Steven McNew, left the inquest by a back door and through a loading dock as Lyles' angry family members crowded the hallway outside.
