King County to pay family of pregnant mother killed by sheriff deputies

King County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of Muckleshoot Tribe member Renee Davis, 23, who was shot and killed by King County Sheriff Deputies Nicholas Pritchett and Tim Lewis in 2016 during a welfare check.

Davis, a mother of three, was pregnant when she was killed. She was in crisis and suicidal when the police were called to her home on Muckleshoot land to perform a welfare check. Davis was in her bed and had an unloaded handgun in her hand when she was killed. Pritchett and Lewis shot Davis within one minute of arriving at her home.

In 2019, the King County Superior Court

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