Overview
- Robert West filed a 12-count lawsuit in King County Superior Court on Feb. 5, 2026, seeking damages to be determined at trial.
- The complaint alleges the City created dangerous conditions during CHOP, failed to warn the public, and left the area without assigned police patrols or timely emergency services.
- West, who was 14 at the time, survived the June 29, 2020 shooting that killed Antonio Mays Jr., and he now lives with permanent injuries including loss of his right eye and a traumatic brain injury.
- The filing cites an email from then-Mayor Jenny Durkan calling an earlier CHOP shooting foreseeable and avoidable, as well as the City's admission that no officers were assigned to patrol CHOP the night West was shot.
- No arrests have been made in the case more than five years later, Seattle must respond to the lawsuit by late February, and a separate dispute over releasing 116 body-camera videos from the Mays case remains pending.