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 San Diego police officer while the teen was running away from gunshots fired by another person, in what the family's attorneys say is believed to be the largest settlement stemming from a police killing in U.S. history, it was announced Friday.

Konoa Wilson's parents sued the city and the officer who shot him , San Diego Police Department Officer Daniel Gold, in connection with the teen's shooting death on the night of Jan. 28.

According to the family's lawsuit, the boy was fleeing gunshots fired at him by another person when he encountered Gold, who shot the boy twice in the back "instantly, without any warning." Konoa was pronounced dead at a hospital less than an hour l

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