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From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now.

I'm Gustavo Sagero with a roundup of today's top stories.

It's Friday, February 6th.

We'll start with some legal news.

A teenager who survived a deadly 2020 shooting in Seattle's so-called chop zone is now suing the city.

Robert West was 14 years old when witnesses say armed protesters calling themselves chop security,

shot him and companion Antonio Mays Jr. inside a stolen Jeep.

Mays died from his wounds while West lost his right eye

and suffered other major injuries. West's lawsuit faults the city for allowing the Capitol Hill

organized protests to form after police abandoned their nearby precinct station. It also says the

city's response to the shooting and later investigation were inadequate. West originally

sued in 2023, but withdrew the lawsuit citing his medical problems. He refiled the suit yesterday.

One week after, a jury awarded the family of Antonio Mays Jr. 30 million dollars in their own lawsuit.

Some news from one of Seattle's biggest companies, the Society of Professional

Engineering Employees in Aerospace or SPIA, is pressing Boeing for answers now that the airplane

maker says it's moving its remaining engineering work on the 787 Dreamliner to South Carolina.

Union leaders say last week's decision will result in approximately 300 jobs being moved from Washington State.

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