The parents of a transgender man fatally shot by a Walgreens security guard in San Francisco last month are seeking at least $25 million in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Walgreens, its parent company, a security firm and the guard who shot him.

Banko Brown’s parents filed the suit after guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony shot and killed Brown on April 27 at a Walgreens store on Market Street. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins declined to file charges against Anthony for the shooting, concluding that he acted in self-defense.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.