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Two teenagers shot in Seattle's Chop autonomous zone - BBC News
One man is dead and another wounded after Seattle CHOP zone shooting | Daily Mail Online
Two teenagers shot in Seattle's Chop autonomous zone - BBC News
In the first shooting, which happened in the early hours of 20 June, a 19-year-old man called Horace Lorenzo Anderson was killed and a 33-year-old man was injured.A second shooting the next day left a 17-year-old boy injured, and another person was wounded in a third shooting two days later.
After the latest violence city officials have said they are considering dismantling Chop, and reopening a police station in the area that was abandoned by officers when the zone was first set up.
Chief Carmen Best, from the Seattle Police Department, said they had found a white Jeep "riddled with bullet holes" near one of the concrete barriers to Chop.
She also accused protesters and residents of "not being cooperative with our requests for help", and said the zone was now "not safe for anybody".
After the latest violence city officials have said they are considering dismantling Chop, and reopening a police station in the area that was abandoned by officers when the zone was first set up.
Chief Carmen Best, from the Seattle Police Department, said they had found a white Jeep "riddled with bullet holes" near one of the concrete barriers to Chop.
She also accused protesters and residents of "not being cooperative with our requests for help", and said the zone was now "not safe for anybody".
Members of CHOP security openly carry around pistols and other weapons. One member has previously been seen brandishing an AK-47. In a previous fatal shooting in the zone, a 19-year-old black man was killed on June 20 and a 33-year-old man was wounded.
Best said the violence that came just over a week after the other shooting in the zone was 'dangerous and unacceptable'.
'Enough is enough,' Best said. 'We need to be able to get back into the area.'
'Two African American men dead at a place where they claim to be working for Black Lives Matter. But they're gone, they're dead now and we've had multiple other incidents - assaults, rape, robbery, shootings - and so this is something that's going to need to change..
'We're asking that people remove themselves from this area for the safety of the people, if they care about people, they're going to have to try to help us to make it safe,' Best added. 'There are people who live here, there are multiple people being injured and hurt, and we need to do something about it. Is it absolutely irresponsible for this to continue.'
Best said the violence that came just over a week after the other shooting in the zone was 'dangerous and unacceptable'.
'Enough is enough,' Best said. 'We need to be able to get back into the area.'
'Two African American men dead at a place where they claim to be working for Black Lives Matter. But they're gone, they're dead now and we've had multiple other incidents - assaults, rape, robbery, shootings - and so this is something that's going to need to change..
'We're asking that people remove themselves from this area for the safety of the people, if they care about people, they're going to have to try to help us to make it safe,' Best added. 'There are people who live here, there are multiple people being injured and hurt, and we need to do something about it. Is it absolutely irresponsible for this to continue.'
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