Two Tacoma police officers charged with second-degree murder in the death of Manuel Ellis were given lower bail amounts than the vast majority of other defendants charged with the same crime in Pierce County since 2017, court records show.
Ellis was not fighting back. Three Tacoma officers charged in Manuel Ellis death
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 1 day ago Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
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Decision in the police death of Manuel Ellis
More than a year after Manuel Ellis died in police custody, the attorney general charged three officers in his death Thursday, May 27.
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Three Tacoma police officers have been criminally charged for the death of Manuel Ellis, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Thursday.
Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins were charged Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Timothy Rankine was charged with first-degree manslaughter.
Updated: 11:11 AM PDT May 18, 2021
TACOMA, Wash. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney s Office has declined to file charges against a man who told police he shot an alleged car prowler over the weekend.
Adam Faber, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office, said Tuesday that all indications show that the 32-year-old man acted in self-defense after the alleged car prowler advanced on him while holding an object to use as a weapon.
The shooting happened Sunday night in the 2500 block of South G Street in Tacoma. The man saw someone prowling his car and shot him after a confrontation, according to Tacoma police.
Family of man killed in Seattle s CHOP zone files wrongful death lawsuit against city
By Q13 News Staff
Family files federal lawsuit against City of Seattle
The family of Lorenzo Anderson has filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle for what they say creating a dangerous environment last summer in CHOP.
SEATTLE - The family of a 19-year-old who was shot and killed in Seattle s CHOP zone last summer has filed a wrongful death suit against the city.
The lawsuit, filed by Herrmann Law Group on behalf of Lorenzo Anderson s mother, claims Seattle officials created a dangerous environment and failed to assist Anderson after he was shot. It comes more than six months after Anderson s mother Donnitta Sinclair filed the same claim with the city.