Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Happy summer solstice.

I hope you're enjoying every drop of sunlight today. We get just shy of 16 hours of daylight.

Come winter solstice, we're going to get eight hours in change. Here are today's

top stories. It's Thursday, June 20th. Jurors are preparing to deliberate in the murder trial of

Auburn police officer Jeffrey Nelson. Nelson's accused of second-degree murder and first-degree

assault in the shooting death of Jesse Surrey five years ago.

In closing arguments today, defense lawyers said Nelson's actions were justified because he thought Saray had gotten control of a knife.

But Nelson didn't express that threat to investigators, according to prosecutor, Angelo Calfo.

Did he say I thought I was going to get shot? Did he say I thought I was going to get stabbed?

No, he didn't say those things.

Prosecutors said Surrey's death resulted from Nelson disregarding his own crisis intervention training.

Nelson's the first police officer charged under the state's new legal standard for misuse of deadly force.

Jurors are going to start their deliberations tomorrow in Kent.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a Redmond couple to keep a wealth tax in place.

The ruling upholds a tax on foreign income, mainly collected by companies that park money abroad to shield it from

U.S. taxes. The tax law was actually passed by a Republican Congress and signed by then-President

Donald Trump. There was widespread attention on this case because groups allied with the

Redmond couple argued that a ruling the other way could have doomed wealth taxes.

To science news rattling the region, hundreds of earthquakes have been detected at Mount St. Helens this year.

The vast majority have been too small to feel at the surface and scientists say there is no

cause for alarm.

Weston Thielen is a research seismologist at the Cascade Volcano Observatory.

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