Seattle pays father $500K settlement after fatal CHOP shooting

The Seattle Times is reporting the city of Seattle has paid a father a $500,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit, two years after his son was shot to death in an area called the CHOP.

Lorenzo Anderson was 19 years old when he died. He was shot near near Cal Anderson Park amid the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone.

Bystanders took him to the hospital after medics refused to go into the CHOP, because of confusion among emergency responders.

Lorenzo's father Horace says it was that confusion, and the lack of a search for the shooter, that led to his son's death.

The lawsuit was filed against then Mayor Jenny Durkan, Councilmember Kshama Sawant, and the city. It argued that Seattle leaders engaged in political theater as they encouraged people in the CHOP to break the law and threaten the safety of others.

Lorenzo had graduated from an alternative youth-education program a day before he was shot in the CHOP.