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    Shooting in Seattle protest zone leaves Horace Lorenzo Anderson (19) dead, 1 injured

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    SEATTLE (AP) ? A pre-dawn shooting in a park in Seattle?s protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person, authorities said Saturday.

    The shooting happened at about 2:30 a.m. in the area near downtown known as CHOP, which stands for ?Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,? police said.

    Officers who responded to the shooting initially had trouble getting to the victims because they were ?were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims,? police said on their blog.

    Two males with gunshot wounds arrived in a private vehicle at Harborview Medical Center at about 3 a.m., said hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg. The 19-year-old man died and the other person was in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

    The suspect or suspects fled and police had no description of the shooter or shooters Saturday morning, police said.

    ?Homicide detectives responded and are conducting a thorough investigation, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances,? police said. Investigators were reviewing public-source video and body-camera video for clues, Seattle Police Sgt. Lauren Truscott told The Seattle Times.

    Protesters have cordoned off several blocks near a police station in Seattle?s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the wake of demonstrations against police violence since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis several weeks ago.

    Police have largely retreated from the zone after clashes with protesters ended with people throwing things at police and police tear gassing people and using other crowd control munitions. City officials have said they are still communicating with protest leaders, who had pledged to keep the peace in the zone.

    The situation has drawn the continued ire of President Donald Trump. His tweets about possibly sending in the military have been met with condemnation from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee, both Democrats.

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    SEATTLE - A 19-year-old man was killed and a second man is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries after a predawn shooting Saturday in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone - also known as CHOP.

    Police say the shootings happened at about 2:30 a.m. at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street. The two victims were taken to Harborview Medical Center, where the 19-year-old was pronounced dead. The second victim, whose age is unknown, is being treated in the intensive care unit with life-threatening injuries.

    A spokesperson for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's office released the following statement on Saturday evening:
    The circumstances leading up to the shooting are under investigation. The suspect or suspects fled and are still at large. There is no description at this time.

    Investigators were reviewing surveillance cams and body-camera video for clues and authorities planned to disclose more information about the shooting later, police said.

    The shooting victims were taken to the hospital separately in private vehicles by people who had been acting as volunteer medics in the CHOP area. After dropping off the victims at Harborview, the CHOP medics walked away with their fists raised in to the air in solidarity.

    East Precinct officers initially responded to Cal Anderson Park after receiving reports of a shooting, but were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims, police said. Officers were later informed that the victims, both males, had been transported to Harborview Medical Center by CHOP medics.

    The CHOP has been the focus of protests for over two weeks. It got its name after police removed barricades that separated protesters from the now-closed East Precinct at 12th Avenue and Pine Street and then retreated from the area.

    During the day time it's been rather peaceful at CHOP. But occasionally at night violence has escalated.

    In the wake of the shooting, Gov. Jay Inslee said he has not yet had a chance to speak with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan or other city leaders about the overnight violence. But he said Seattle's elected city officials need to find a way to provide police and fire services in the CHOP zone without violating citizens' free speech rights.

    I certainly believe we need to have a way for the community to speak and for police and fire services to be provided," Inslee said at a Saturday afternoon news conference. "One way or another we obviously need to provide protection to citizens everywhere in the state of Washington, including that particular area, so I wholeheartedly believe that is a necessity.

    Homicide detectives are conducting a thorough investigation into the shooting, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances.

    Anyone with information about this shooting, or who may have video, is asked to contact the Seattle Police Department’s Violent Crime tip line at (206) 233-5000.

    The Seattle Fire Depaertment released the following timeline of key developments in the shooting:

    On June 20, 2020 at approximately 2:19 a.m., 9-1-1 received reports of a shooting at 10th Ave and E. Pine St. SPD officers responded to the scene and SFD dispatch was notified.

    Due to SFD’s existing policy of staging and requesting law enforcement to first secure the scene before entering for scenes of violence, SFD units staged at Broadway and Pine St. at 2:25 a.m. This is a standard procedure for any scene of violence and is also currently in place for any fire and medical emergency inside the area deemed the CHOP due to firefighter safety.

    Between 2:26 and 2:28 a.m. SPD officers staged at 12th Ave and Cherry St. and initially entered the scene but were unable to secure the location for SFD medics. Simultaneously, volunteer medics provided medical assistance to the first gunshot victim. The first victim was transported via a private vehicle and arrived at 2:42 a.m. at Harborview Medical Center. The first victim was pronounced deceased at Harborview Medical Center at 2:53 a.m.

    There were multiple 9-1-1 calls, and at approximately 2:51 a.m., reports surfaced of a second gunshot victim nearby at 11th and Pike. SPD officers and SFD medics were already on the scene staging due to the previous call and needed SPD presence to enter the scene. Simultaneously, the second victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center in a private vehicle and arrived with a major gunshot wound at 3:06 a.m. The victim is in critical condition.

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    SEATTLE (AP) — A pre-dawn shooting in a park in Seattle’s protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person, authorities said Saturday.

    The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m. in the area near the city’s downtown that is known as CHOP, which stands for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” police said.

    Officers responding to the shooting initially said they had trouble getting to the scene because they were “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims,” police said on their blog. Video released later in the day by the Seattle Police appears to show officers arriving at the protest zone saying they want to get to the victim and entering as people yell at them that the victim is already gone.

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    Two males with gunshot wounds arrived in private vehicles at Harborview Medical Center about 3 a.m., hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg said. The 19-year-old man died, and the other person was in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

    The suspect or suspects fled. Investigators had no description of the shooter or shooters as of Saturday afternoon, police said.

    “Homicide detectives responded and are conducting a thorough investigation, despite the challenges presented by the circumstances,” police said.

    The CHOP zone is an area where protesters cordoned off several blocks near a police station in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood following demonstrations against police violence since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis several weeks ago.

    Seattle police largely retreated from the zone after clashes with protesters ended with people throwing things at police and police tear-gassing people and using other crowd control munitions. Protesters and others have said the police overreacted. City officials have said they are still communicating with protest leaders, who had pledged to keep the peace in the zone.

    The president of the union representing more than 1,000 of Seattle’s police officers, Mike Solan, told Fox News that “violence has now besieged the area known as CHOP, and it is no longer the summer of love, it’s the summer of chaos.”

    Hours after the shooting, the scene in the protest zone was quiet. People pushed baby strollers, and other visitors milled about in the cool, cloudy weather, taking photos of themselves with CHOP signs.

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    Protest organizers held a meeting to discuss the early morning shootings, and some protest volunteers patrolled the area carrying guns. They did not interfere with anyone entering or leaving the zone.

    Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant expressed her condolences and said the man who died was Black.

    “Socialist Alternative and I stand in solidarity with the family and friends of the victim, and with the injured protester now in the hospital, as well as with all community members and fellow activists,” she said.

    The zone has drawn the continued ire of President Donald Trump. His tweets about possibly sending in the military have been met with condemnation from Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee, both Democrats.

    Asked about the shooting Saturday, Inslee said “we need to have a way for the community to have a way to speak and for police and fire services to be provided.”

    Inslee added: “One way or another we obviously need to provide a way to offer protection for people, and that’s a necessity.”

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    https://www.king5.com/article/news/l...9-337d42031511

    SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a shooting in the area of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, also known as CHOP. It's the second shooting in the CHOP area in two days.

    A 17-year-old boy was taken to Harborview Medical Center with a gunshot wound around 11 p.m. Sunday, according to hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg.

    Gregg said the 17-year-old arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle from Capitol Hill. The victim was treated at the hospital and released from Harborview’s Emergency Department.

    Seattle police tweeted about the shooting and said they were hearing "conflicting reports" about a possible second shooting in the same area, but that has not been confirmed.

    No suspect descriptions were available.

    The shooting Sunday night followed a deadly shooting in the CHOP early Saturday morning that left a 19-year-old man dead and another man critically injured.

    No arrests have been made in that case.

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    SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department (SPD) moved into the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" (CHOP) zone and returned to the department's East Precinct early Wednesday morning after abandoning the building three weeks ago.

    Officers arrested at least three dozen people for failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault. However, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said she recommended the city not file charges against misdemeanor arrests from Wednesday morning.



    Durkan issued a 48-hour executive order for protesters to vacate the area due to the ongoing violence and public safety issues in the area of the East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park. Mayor Durkan's order declared the gathering as an “unlawful assembly” that required immediate action.

    “These acts of violence hurt our whole community and they are also in direct contrast to the message ringing from the streets that Black lives matter,” Durkan said during a briefing after the operation.




    Two teenagers were killed and three other people were injured in shootings in or near the CHOP since the protest began on June 8. The precinct was evacuated on June 11.

    Police moved into the CHOP just before 5 a.m. and issued a dispersal order to any protesters in the area.

    "Anyone who remains in the area, or returns to the area, is subject to arrest," SPD tweeted.



    Officers were seen clearing tents and barriers in the CHOP. KING 5 crews saw officers using pepper spray on demonstrators who weren’t leaving the area after dispersal orders were given.

    "Thank you to the individuals affiliated with the CHOP who have assisted officers in encouraging people to safely leave the area," SPD tweeted.




    KING 5’s Michael Crowe said a majority of the protesters had left the CHOP by 6:20 a.m. Around the same time, SPD tweeted that officers “continue to give dispersal orders and are moving remaining groups north through Cal Anderson Park.”

    "The Seattle Police Department basically reclaimed the precinct in less than 30 minutes, 5 feet at a time with the bicycle officers out in front,” said Omari Salisbury, a reporter with Seattle's Converge Media. Salisbury has been live streaming from the CHOP throughout the protest in Capitol Hill.



    SPD said officers enforcing Mayor Durkan’s order were “wearing a higher-level of protective gear” because “numerous people in the area are in possession of firearms” and that suspects in recent shootings may still be in the area.

    At 6:35 a.m., SPD said it was investigating “several vehicles” that were circling the area after officers moved into the CHOP. Police said the vehicles didn’t appear to have visible license plates, and the people inside were seen with “firearms/armor.”

    Police said a 29-year-old man that was arrested Wednesday had a large metal pipe and kitchen knife when he was taken into custody.

    Police tweeted city workers also recovered "improvised spike strips" from the area around the CHOP.



    Durkan has received criticism for allowing the CHOP to remain in place for more than three weeks, but the mayor defended the wait saying the operation that took place Wednesday morning would not have been possible with more protesters occupying the area. Last week CHOP organizers asked demonstrators to leave the area due to safety concerns.

    Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said during a press conference Wednesday morning that officers searched the East Precinct to make sure there “weren’t any obstacles or any other concerns in the building.”

    Chief Best said officers cleared the building, but haven’t moved into the precinct yet.

    Chief Best said SPD would start operations at the precinct “as soon as we reasonably can.”

    "This is not an end to our department’s engagement with demonstrators," said Chief Best. "We must continue our efforts to build trust and redefine our roles as guardians in our city."


    U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr issued a statement Wednesday and commended Chief Best “for her courage and leadership in restoring the rule of law in Seattle.”

    “As Chief Best made clear throughout the process, there is a fundamental distinction between discussion of substantive issues — including addressing distrust of law enforcement by many in the African-American community — and violent defiance of the law,” Barr said in the statement. “Chief Best has rightly committed to continue the substantive discussion while ending the violence, which threatens innocent people and undermines the very rule-of-law principles that the protesters profess to defend.”




    The decision to dismantle the CHOP was sparked by an uptick in violence in addition to the deadly shootings.

    "The CHOP has become lawless and brutal," Chief Best said.

    In a Blotter post, SPD said there were 65 reported offenses inside the CHOP between June 8-30, 2020. Police said the offenses include aggravated assault, larceny-theft, rape, and two homicides. There were a total of 37 offenses during that time in the same area in 2019, according to SPD.



    Activist Andre Taylor, whose brother was shot and killed by Seattle Police in 2016, said the first time there was violence in the CHOP, there should have been an "awakening."

    RELATED: Activist urges CHOP demonstrators to leave at night after recent Seattle shootings

    "That awakening should have focused on those deaths as well as George Floyd's untimely death,” said Taylor. “I think if they had pivoted to those deaths as strongly as George Floyd's death, I think that Seattle would have continued to support this group. But for there to be continual shootings and deaths consistently, we just couldn't allow this place to continue. It didn't end how it started and that's the tragedy of the situation."

    Moving forward, Durkan said during a Wednesday briefing that her administration would work with community to rethink policing and investments in communities of color. Durkan says they will focus on areas including investments in Black communities and young people, rethinking and reimagining policing, including culture and budget, and accountability and reform, including state law.

    Some of those investments include allocating $100 million in her 2021 budget for investments in Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities, $5 million in the budget rebalance for summer learning for Black youth, and $20 million in cuts from the Seattle police budget.

    “Undoing centuries of systemic racism will not happen overnight as I’ve said before but I do believe Seattle can lead the way,” Durkan said.







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    SEATTLE - The family of a 19-year-old shot and killed at the edge of the Seattle CHOP zone was laid to rest today in Kent.

    The father of Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. told us, he still hasn’t received a call about his son’s death from the Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan, but he got a condolence call this morning from President Trump.
    "Incredibly, Donald Trump called me," said 50-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr. "The President of the United States called me today. He gave his condolences, and me, I'm not a political guy. I told him, 'Nobody like you.' I'm real. Donald Trump called me and he didn't have to call me."

    There was an overflow crowd and overflowing emotions at the funeral home in Kent, where hundreds showed up for today's service.

    "I haven't been able to sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night. I go look for him. He ain't there," said the older Anderson.

    In the early morning hours of Saturday, June 20, shots rang out inside the CHOP zone near Cal Anderson Park in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. A 33-year old man was critically wounded. Anderson died in the shooting.

    19-year-old Abrionna Anderson was his cousin and best friend.

    "I have no other friends like that, honestly," Anderson said. "Every day we were together. My home was his second home and it's so heartbreaking to me."

    Seattle Police said, because of the danger present in the occupied protest they could not safely clear the area. Ambulances never made it to Anderson. Volunteer medics rushed him to the hospital when seconds mattered most.

    "My son, he needed help," said Anderson Sr. "And they shouldn't be picking kids up and throwing them in their trunk and taking them to the hospital. The paramedics should have been there. The police should have been there."

    He says the city has offered no explanation.

    Wednesday night, the father went on Hannity on Fox News to share his pain and frustration.

    “It’s like they didn’t care, it didn’t matter. I haven’t heard from the mayor from the police department. No city. Nobody,” said Anderson Sr.

    The CHOP has since been dismantled.

    There has not been an arrest in the killing of Anderson. This was one of several shootings that happened in and around the CHOP zone.

    Including another that left a 16 year old dead and a 14-year-old injured.



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    Update the Victim name has been released identified as Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. (19)

    It was early morning after his graduation day.

    It could have been a joyous weekend. One to celebrate his accomplishments: earning a diploma from Interagency Academy’s Youth Education Program (YEP) after time spent in and out of school. One that represented the fork in a path that’d been paved by struggle — he wanted stable housing, to hold down a job, to eventually have a family.

    But 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, who went by his middle name, was dead.

    Anderson was one of two people shot Saturday morning at the edge of the Capitol Hill protest zone known as CHOP, or Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Seattle Fire Department officials say he was pronounced dead at Harborview Medical Center at 2:53 a.m. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his identity Monday and said he died from multiple gunshot wounds.

    The other person who was shot, a 33-year-old man, remained in critical condition at Harborview as of Monday. The shooting is still under investigation, and no suspects are in custody.

    Ambulances never made it to Anderson at the scene of the shooting, which occurred just after 2 a.m.

    Seattle police said they could not clear the area, and Anderson was brought to the hospital by volunteer medics. His shooting in a zone free of police and seemingly impermeable to emergency personnel — created in response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis — comes amid a deep, national reckoning over persistent racial injustice against Black people. Anderson was Black.

    Aushinae Washington, Anderson’s former girlfriend, says she awoke to a late-night call from her father, who shared the news. When she and her mother arrived at the hospital around 5:40 a.m., they were told to wait outside with Anderson’s family. “No one was allowed, not even his mother and father were allowed to see his body,” she said.

    “The family was left with nothing but disorientation,” her mother, Brandy McWilliams, said.

    Washington met Anderson when she was 16. He loved basketball back then, but soon he put his heart into making music. He would take time to write lyrics and develop raps, she said.

    Anderson wrote about what it was like growing up in a rough neighborhood, said Johnny Jefferson, who was close with Anderson and is the site lead at YEP, an alternative high school for students who have trouble succeeding at neighborhood schools.

    “He came from a part of Seattle where it was tough to survive in those types of conditions,” Jefferson said. “You either go with the wolves or you get eaten.” Anderson had trouble finding safe housing. He got into trouble. But having difficult things to work through — that’s what life is like for almost anybody, Jefferson said.

    When Anderson would disappear from school for a few days, as he did on occasion, Jefferson found creative ways to talk Anderson into coming back. Jefferson offered to cut his students’ hair if they met him at school for the trim. “I’d trap him into getting some work done,” Jefferson said.

    Anderson found a home at YEP. Teachers there adored him. So did his classmates. In a photo of the pair near the Space Needle last spring, Jefferson swung his arm over Anderson’s shoulder while Anderson looked confidently at the camera. “He really wanted to be loved,” Jefferson said.

    Anderson’s English language arts teacher Ehren Berger ran into him a few weeks ago near a Fred Meyer in Greenwood. They hugged, talked.

    “He was going to get his diploma this year,” Berger said. “I told him how proud I was of him for sticking with it, for not giving up.”

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