The shooting Tuesday morning is the third shooting in the CHOP area since Saturday. Nineteen-year-old Horace Anderson and a 33-year-old man were shot in the CHOP zone Saturday morning. Anderson was killed and the 33-year-old remains in critical condition at Harborview.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the arm in the CHOP zone Sunday night and transported to Harborview. A hospital spokesperson said the teenager was treated at the hospital and released from the emergency department. He declined to speak with the police.
After the weekend shootings, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Monday that police officers would take back the East Precinct in Capitol Hill, which was abandoned earlier this month and boarded up. Durkan said the city would work with CHOP organizers to dismantle the protest zone after two weeks of occupation, because the violence was distracting from the message of addressing racial inequality.
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