PICTURED: 16-year-old boy shot dead after driving into barrier at CHOP as cops release footage of gunmen prowling streets inside the zone on the night he died
- Antonio Mays Jr was killed in the early hours of Monday morning inside CHOP; a 14-year-old was also injured
- Eyewitnesses say the area’s armed security shot at the Jeep his was driving on a night 300 rounds were fired
- A second teen, Lorenzo Anderson, 19, was shot dead in the ‘occupied’ protest zone on June 20
- Police have released a video documenting the acts of violence inside CHOP over the last few weeks
- Gunmen are seen prowling the streets inside CHOP on the night of Mays Jr’s death
- Seattle police on Wednesday reclaimed their precinct after the mayor finally issued an executive order
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The 16-year-old boy shot dead after driving into at barrier at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone has been named as Antonio Mays Jr.
Mays Jr was killed in the early hours of Monday morning after eyewitnesses say the area’s armed security fired at the Jeep his was driving. A 14-year-old boy was also critically wounded in the shooting.
Seattle police on Wednesday reclaimed their precinct in the city’s ‘occupied’ protest zone after the mayor finally issued an early morning executive order to vacate the area.
Law enforcement also released a video documenting the acts of violence inside CHOP over the last few weeks. Gunmen are seen prowling through the area on the night of Mays Jr’s death. One eyewitness said 300 rounds were fired on the night of his killing.
DailyMail.com has contacted police for the latest on their investigation into the fatal shooting and to determine whether any of those in the video released by cops are suspects in the Mays Jr’s killing.
His death marked the second fatal shooting in the area after a 19-year-old was killed on June 20.
Antonio Mays Jr was killed in the early hours of Monday morning inside CHOP
Police have released a video documenting the acts of violence inside CHOP over the last few weeks; gunmen are seen prowling on the night of Mays Jr’s death
DailyMail.com has contacted police for the latest on their investigation into the fatal shooting to determine where any of those in the video are suspects
Mayor Jenny Durkan called the city’s ‘occupied’ protest zone an ‘unlawful assembly’ in an order Wednesday. Seattle police confirmed Wednesday they would be ‘in the area this morning enforcing the Mayor’s order’
Seattle police on Wednesday moved in to reclaim their precinct in the city’s ‘occupied’ protest zone
Protesters had occupied several blocks around a park and the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct after officers abandoned the building following clashes with protesters calling for an end to police brutality.
At least 31 people were arrested at the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone Wednesday which has seen two deadly shootings and crime rise by more than 500 per cent in just over three weeks.
A second teen, Lorenzo Anderson, 19, was shot dead on the protest area on June 20.
His father, Horace Lorenzo Anderson, said: ‘This doesn’t look like a protest to me no more. That just looks like they just took over and said we can take over whenever we want to.’
Armed security inside Seattle’s ‘occupied’ protest zone fired 300 rounds on the night they shot dead a black 16-year-old boy driving a Jeep, according to one eyewitness
Footage from inside the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) zone shows the chaotic scenes and the bullet ridden vehicle in the immediate aftermath of the shoot out
Those inside CHOP say they started shooting at the Jeep only after two teens opened fire on them and drove into a barricade
A second teen, Lorenzo Anderson, 19, was shot dead in the area on June 20
Volunteer medic Marty Jackson had described the area as an ‘active war zone’ and said: ‘I don’t think we’re gonna stop here.’
Speaking outside the precinct Wednesday morning police chief Carmen Best confirmed her officers had reclaimed the precinct, with the help of Bellevue police and the FBI, but could not offer a timeframe on when they would move back in.
She said: ‘Our job is to support peaceful demonstration but what has happened on these streets over the last two weeks is lawless and it’s brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable.’
Volunteer medic Marty Jackson had described the area as an ‘active war zone’ and said: ‘I don’t think we’re gonna stop here’
Officers in riot gear issued a dispersal order at 5am leading to the 31 arrests within just 30 minutes amid fears the protesters could now move to West Precinct
There had been increasing calls by critics, including President Trump, to remove protesters from the ‘Capitol Hill Occupied Protest’ area east of downtown.
Protesters say they should not be blamed for the violence in the area. People continued to add artwork, flowers and candles at a memorial for the 16-year-old on Tuesday.
Chief Best said the shootings are obscuring the message of racial justice promoted by protesters.
Nearby businesses and property owners also filed a federal lawsuit against the city last week, saying officials have been too tolerant of those who created the zone and that officials have deprived property owners of their property rights by allowing the zone to continue existing.
Also Tuesday, Mayor Durkan asked the City Council to investigate council member Kshama Sawant, accusing her of opening City Hall to protesters on June 9 and participating in a protest march to Durkan’s home on Sunday.
‘She and organizers knew that my address was protected under the state confidentiality program because of threats against me due largely to my work as U.S. attorney,’ Durkan wrote.
Sawant said she had not organized the march and wasn’t taking Durkan’s words personally, The Seattle Times reported.