Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019. Auburn officer Jeff Nelson shot and killed Jesse Sarey while trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct in an interaction that lasted just 67 seconds, authorities said. Sarey was the third person Nelson has killed while on duty.
An Iraq war veteran, Nelson joined the department in 2008. The city of Auburn paid Sarey’s family $4 million to settle a civil rights claim and has paid nearly $2 million more to settle other litigation over Nelson’s actions as a police officer. In one case, the city of Auburn agreed to pay $1.25 million to the family of a different man killed by Nelson, Isaiah Obet.
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