The person killed during a shooting in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zo๊ne early Monday was a 16-year-old boy, police said.
Witnesses said they had spotted a white Jeep Cherokee SUV, near one of the makeshift barriers around the protest zone, jus💦t before gunfire erupted at around﷽ 3 a.m., according to Seattle Police.
🎉Callers to 911 reported several people firing into the vehicle.
Neither the 16-year-old, or, a 14-year-old boy also wounded i♔n the shooting, w꧋ere immediately identified by name.
The 16-year-old was proℱnounced dead at Harborview Medical Center. The younger teen was hospitalized for gun🔯shot injuries and was reported in critical condition.
It appeared the crime scene was tampered with following the shootꩲing, cops said.
“Our homicide detectives searched the Jeep for evidenc🌊e but there wasn’t much we could find,” Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said.
“It’s abundantly clear to our detectives that people had been in and out of the car a🔜fter the shooting.”
Detectives are relying on witnesses to figure out what happened, but Best said that, as with the other shootings in the area, “people are not being cooperative with our🔴 requests for help♏.”
The violence occurred just over a week after another shooting in the zone, dubbed CHOP, left a 19-year-old man dead and a 33-year-old man wounded.
“Enough is enough,” Best told reporters. “Weᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ need to be able to get back into the area.”
Protesters have occupied several blocks around the Seattle Police Department’s deserted East Precinct and a park for ab🌊out two weeks.
The precinct was abandoned following standoffs and clashes with d❀emonstrators calling for racial justice and an end to poﷺlice brutality.
But🔯 the violence is clouding the message t🌸he protesters aim to promote, the police chief said.
“Two African American men are dead, at a place where they claim to be working for Black Lives Matter,” Best said. “But they’re gone, they’re dead now.”