SEATTLE
(AP) — One person was wounded in what was the second shooting in
Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours, police said.
The shooting
happened late Sunday night in the area near Seattle’s downtown that is
known as CHOP, for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” police tweeted,
adding that one person was at a hospital with a gunshot wound.
The person
arrived in a private vehicle and was in serious condition, Harborview
Medical Center spokesperson Susan Gregg said in a statement.
The zone
evolved after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and
racism, sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in
Minneapolis.
The Sunday shooting followed a pre-dawn shooting on Saturday
in a park within the zone that left a 19-year-old man dead and a
33-year-old man critically injured. The suspect or suspects in that
first shooting fled the scene, and no arrests had been made as of Sunday, Detective Mark Jamieson had said.
It wasn’t
immediately clear where within the zone Sunday night’s shooting took
place. The Seattle Fire Department arrived at the scene at 10:46 p.m.
and went to a staging area near the zone’s perimeter, fire department
spokesperson David Cuerpo told the Seattle Times.
The fire
department was soon notified that the injured person has already been
taken away. Both victims in Saturday’s shooting — whose identities
hadn’t yet been released — were also transported to the same hospital
via private car.
Seattle police tweeted that they had heard of a second shooting that they were unable to verify, given “conflicting reports.”
Further details about what transpired Sunday night weren’t immediately available. It wasn’t clear whether anyone was in custody.
The CHOP zone
is a several-block area cordoned off by protesters near a police station
in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. President Donald Trump, a
Republican, has criticized Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay
Inslee, both Democrats, for allowing the zone.
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