Seattle-area woman agrees to sell home, move after alleged racial outbursts and threats towards neighbor

A 72-year-old girl accused of hate crimes in opposition to her Vietnamese neighbor has agreed to promote her Seattle-area residence as a part of a civil settlement with the sufferer and her household, in line with experiences.

As per the settlement, Jan Myers, who’s White, is predicted to promote her residence in Shoreline, Washington, about 9 miles from downtown Seattle, inside the subsequent six months and pay the sufferer, Thi Pham, who’s Vietnamese American, $45,000 from that sale, KGW reported. If Myers fails to maneuver from the neighborhood earlier than the time-frame is up, the case might be referred to a civil jury. 

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The ordeal started in April 2021 when Pham stated she was exterior in her entrance yard gardening when she observed Myers sitting within the roadway looking at her and starting to maneuver her automotive forwards and backwards. Petrified of what would occur subsequent, Pham stated she started recording and Myers is seen yelling a number of racial slurs and threats.

Within the video, Myers is heard calling Pham “slant eye” and “Miss Vietnam” and threatening “you’re not going to stay very lengthy.” Pham referred to as police afterward. Two weeks prior, Pham stated Myers had walked onto her patio bare from the waist down making obscene gestures in entrance of her two-year-old son. 

Myers was charged with a hate crime in April 2021, however a choose launched her with out bail on her personal recognizance shortly after. Pham and her husband, Invoice Healy, filed a civil lawsuit in King County Superior Court docket in August 2021, claiming Myers violated a no contact order and continued to harass them. The couple alleged that Myers screamed at them exterior and drove her automotive straight at Healy.   

Attorneys for Pham and Healy introduced the civil settlement at a press convention Thursday. 

“I’m glad that I can safely stay in my residence with out racial harassment,” Pham stated, in line with KING-TV. “We hope Jan Myers comply with by way of the settlement and transfer rapidly.”

“That was what made it very tough, is once I realized my spouse and my household, their bodily well-being and their life was being threatened by this individual,” Healy stated, in line with KIRO. 

“We have to make the people who find themselves harassing folks due to their race pay and make them pay the sufferer,” Pham and Healy’s lawyer Jeffery Campiche added. 

The subsequent listening to within the felony case is ready for April 25. Myers’s trial is scheduled to start on June 8.