One of the people killed was in an altercation which was not related to the protest or in the actual zone, the other person was killed overnight when the group who had been known as protest security, Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club, were not present and there was essentially no action going on, no other claimed 'event security' was present. No suspect was ever made public in the second shooting that I saw, private security hired by businesses were there though and it's my theory they were connected to that shooting. Overall though during that time there were as many shootings as average for the neighborhood.

I just wanted to say this because I've been seeing people connect this shooting to CHAZ but the situation is much different from what I've seen.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to the specific shooting to the two teenagers

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/everybody-down-what-happened-at-the-chop-shooting-that-killed-a-teenager-and-led-to-the-areas-shutdown/

But after looking it up it seems like there were around 4 shootings in the zone around that time?

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

Ah right, I forgot two people were shot at that incident, one killed. That was where it was my suspicion that private security connected to businesses or the city was involved. A few people that posed as protesters but were hired by the city/some org to co-opt the protest were seen cleaning the scene and talking to police-aligned private security the next morning at the location of the shooting, police didn't show up til hours after and never investigated.

It was that shooting that they used as impetus to shut down the zone, separately there was also a random parked car firebombed in a very suspicious manner on the same block some night soon after.