By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The city of San Diego has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a city police officer as the youth was fleeing another teenager who had opened fire on him, U.S. media reported on Friday.

The settlement by the California city ranks as one of the largest in a wrongful death civil case arising from a killing by U.S. law enforcement, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the New York Times reported.

The sum for the family of Konoa Wilson, killed on the night of January 28, surpasses the $27 million payout received in 2021 by the family of George Floyd, whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman had sparked a summer of nationwide protests for racial justice in 2020.

At that time, the Floyd settl

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