A King County inquest jury unanimously found last week that a former Redmond police officer was not legally justified when he shot a woman six times with a high-powered rifle as she lay squirming on the floor in the hallway outside her apartment in September 2020.

The six-member jury also unanimously found on Nov. 20 that former Officer Daniel Mendoza did not meet the “good faith” standard of what a reasonable officer would do in the same circumstances and did not use an amount of force that seemed reasonable.

After hearing two days of testimony at the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle, the jurors answered 86 questions — or interrogatories — about the Sept. 20, 2020, police killing of Andrea Churna, 39, who was in crisis when she called 911 because she thought someone was inside

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