Seattle Police, Paramedics Left Teen To Die In Lawless Autonomous Zone: Lawsuit
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A 19-year-old was shot several times in June 2020 right outside of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) area
A new lawsuit alleged paramedics were minutes away from the dying teenager but did not help him
The autonomous zone was formed amid Black Lives Matter protests after the police murder of George Floyd
Seattle paramedics have been accused of negligence after allegedly leaving a 19-year-old teenager shot inside the city s lawless, autonomous zone to die despite being minutes away from the victim, court papers revealed.
Authorities were instantly called at around 2:19 a.m. after Lorenzo Anderson was shot several times on June 20, 2020, right outside of the city s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone, the New York Post reported, citing three Notices of Claims filed Wednesday by a law firm representing Anderson s estate.
The summer of love became a summer of blood : Mom of teen shot dead in Seattle s CHOP zone files wrongful death against city s mayor Jenny Durkan after she branded anarchist area a harmless block party
Donnitta Sinclair filed the wrongful death suit against Durkan and the City of Seattle on behalf of her deceased 19-year-old son Horace Lorenzo Anderson
Anderson was killed in June 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protest in the wake of the George Floyd murder
He is said to have squared up to rival Marcel Long, who is accused of firing the shots moments later. Long remains at large
Dan Nolte, a spokesperson for the Seattle City Attorney s Office, said the agency intends to investigate these brought claims and will defend the City in this matter.
Anderson, whose full name is Horace Lorenzo Anderson, was shot June 20 in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP, zone and transported by volunteer medics to Harborview Medical Center, where he died, the Seattle Fire Department said at the time.
King County prosecutors on Aug. 5 charged 18-year-old Marcel Long with first-degree murder in the case, accusing him of fatally shooting Anderson and fleeing the state. A warrant has been issued for Long’s arrest.
Seattle Paramedics Left Special Needs Teen To Die In Chop Zone, Claims Filed By The Estate
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SEATTLE, May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Notice of Claims were filed today by Evan M. Oshan of Oshan & Associates, P.C. (Oshan Law) on behalf of the personal representative for the Lorenzo Anderson Estate.
The claims outline various duties breached by government officials. The inactions by the defendants were directly responsible for the death of Lorenzo Anderson.
Lorenzo Anderson, 19, was shot several times on June 20, 2020 right outside of the city s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP ZONE) area – a seven block zone that sprung due to Black Lives Matter protests after the murder of George Floyd.
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Remember when Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan described the madness that happened in the BLM Seattle CHOP autonomous zone last year as a “summer of love?”
In addition to a lot of damage and other craziness, multiple people were also killed in the zone.
One of those people was 19-year-old Lorenzo Anderson. We reported on how President Donald Trump called and tried to comfort his father, and how insane it was that Durkan hadn’t shut down and cleared out the area.
But now, according to the NY Post, the estate of Lorenzo Anderson has filed suit against the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle Emergency Medical Services, Mayor Jenny Durkan, the Seattle City Council, and the state of Washington alleging that they were all negligent and “breached the duty of reasonable care” when he was shot in the zone in June of last year.