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SEATTLE (KOMO) — A man was killed and a 14-year-old boy was critically wounded in a shooting near Seattle's CHOP area early Monday morning. [today]
Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls after gunfire erupted just after 3 a.m. near 12th Avenue and Pike Street, according to Seattle Police. Witnesses reported several unidentified people had fired shots into an SUV.
"When investigators arrived, they found a white Jeep Cherokee riddled with bullet holes on 12th Avenue between Pike and Pine," said Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. "Officers were told two men in the vehicle had been shot, but both were gone when officers got there."
One of the victims was driven to Harborview Medical Center in a private vehicle and arrived at 3:15 a.m., while the second victim was eventually brought to a Seattle Fire Department staging area outside the CHOP and taken via ambulance, according to hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg. That victim arrived about 15 minutes later.
One of the victims, described as an African-American adult man, later died at the hospital, Best said. The other victim, a 14-year-old African-American teen, remains in critical condition.
But Best says the investigation is being hindered by a tampered crime scene.
"Our homicide detectives searched the Jeep for evidence but there wasn't much we could find," Best said. "They typical things we search for in a shooting like this weren't there and it's abundantly clear to our detectives that people had been in and out of the car after the shooting."
Detectives are relying on witnesses to try to piece together what happened, "but as has been the case in other crime scenes up in this area, people are not being cooperative with our requests for help."
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"It's very fluid, (and) it's very unfortunate that we have another murder in this area identified as the CHOP," Best said. "Two African-American men... dead at a place where they 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, rapes robbery, shootings -- so this is something that's going to need to change."
It's the fourth shooting in the region protestors named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, which surrounds the area where Seattle Police's East Precinct was headquartered and began in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
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If this doesn't tell you that you have to have armed police officers then I guess nothing will. Where's the outrage over these dead African-Americans? I just don't get it, it's okay for anyone else to kill a black person, but if a cop does it then God have mercy. How does BLM justify saying black lives matter when some do and some don't?
Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls after gunfire erupted just after 3 a.m. near 12th Avenue and Pike Street, according to Seattle Police. Witnesses reported several unidentified people had fired shots into an SUV.
"When investigators arrived, they found a white Jeep Cherokee riddled with bullet holes on 12th Avenue between Pike and Pine," said Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. "Officers were told two men in the vehicle had been shot, but both were gone when officers got there."
One of the victims was driven to Harborview Medical Center in a private vehicle and arrived at 3:15 a.m., while the second victim was eventually brought to a Seattle Fire Department staging area outside the CHOP and taken via ambulance, according to hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg. That victim arrived about 15 minutes later.
One of the victims, described as an African-American adult man, later died at the hospital, Best said. The other victim, a 14-year-old African-American teen, remains in critical condition.
But Best says the investigation is being hindered by a tampered crime scene.
"Our homicide detectives searched the Jeep for evidence but there wasn't much we could find," Best said. "They typical things we search for in a shooting like this weren't there and it's abundantly clear to our detectives that people had been in and out of the car after the shooting."
Detectives are relying on witnesses to try to piece together what happened, "but as has been the case in other crime scenes up in this area, people are not being cooperative with our requests for help."
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"It's very fluid, (and) it's very unfortunate that we have another murder in this area identified as the CHOP," Best said. "Two African-American men... dead at a place where they 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, rapes robbery, shootings -- so this is something that's going to need to change."
It's the fourth shooting in the region protestors named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, which surrounds the area where Seattle Police's East Precinct was headquartered and began in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.
1 dead, teen wounded as another deadly shooting mars CHOP area
SEATTLE (KOMO) — A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old boy was critically wounded in a shooting near Seattle's CHOP area early Monday morning. Dispatchers received multiple 911 calls after gunfire erupted just after 3 a. m. near 12th Avenue and Pike Street, according to Seattle Police...
komonews.com
If this doesn't tell you that you have to have armed police officers then I guess nothing will. Where's the outrage over these dead African-Americans? I just don't get it, it's okay for anyone else to kill a black person, but if a cop does it then God have mercy. How does BLM justify saying black lives matter when some do and some don't?
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