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Donnitta Sinclair Martin, the mother of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, Jr., a 19-year-old black man who was shot and killed in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, is suing the city of Seattle, her lawyer says, because city officials abandoned the six-block “autonomous zone,” leaving her injured and bleeding son to wait for emergency care that never arrived.

“The mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot last month in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone filed a wrongful-death claim against the city of Seattle on Monday, alleging city officials created a dangerous environment by allowing protesters to occupy six city blocks and that police and fire officials failed to protect or medically assist her son,” the Seattle Times reported, citing the mother’s attorney.

Anderson and another man, a 33-year-old, were shot multiple times near the boundary of the CHOP zone, the outlet says, but protesters, concerned with preventing police from clearing the site, blocked emergency vehicles and other first responders from attending to Lorenzo Anderson, Jr.

“Anderson and a 33-year-old man, who was critically injured, were shot that Saturday and were transported in private vehicles to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center by volunteer medics,” Seattle Times says. “At the time, demonstrators had largely blocked off law enforcement access to the CHOP area amid demands for racial justice and calls to defund the Seattle Police Department (SPD).”

The suit also alleges that protesters from CHOP also blocked any investigation into Anderson’s death. Police, for their part, say they have yet to identify a suspect in the shooting.

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