ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) — A jury has sided with two Issaquah police officers who were sued by the wife of a 66-year-old man. Wangsheng Leng died after suffering a neck injury when he was detained by police investigating a 2018 domestic dispute. A unanimous federal jury sided with officers Michael Lucht and Kylen Whittom. Leng was hospitalized and underwent surgery for spinal cord decompression after falling limp when officers pushed him onto a couch and handcuffed him. He died a month later. The King County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide, stating that Leng died as a result of complications from a “blunt force injury to the neck,” which “occurred in circumstances involving the use of physical restraint.”
Jury sides with Issaquah officers in neck-injury death
