Second Shooting in Seattle’s ‘CHOP’ Zone Leaves One in Critical Condition

One person was wounded in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

Pedestrians walk where streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) zone in Seattle, on June 21, 2020. Elaine Thompson/AP Photo

SEATTLE—One person was wounded in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours, police said.

The shooting happened late Sunday night in the area near Seattle’s downtown that is known as CHOP, for “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest,” police tweeted, adding that one person was at a hospital with a gunshot wound.