Seattle to Pay $500,000 to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over Autonomous Zone Shooting

Horace Lorenzo Anderson (L) speaks about his son, Lorenzo Anderson, who was killed near a so-called autonomous zone in Seattle, Wash., in a June 29, 2020, file photograph. David Ryder/Getty Images

Seattle authorities have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit that pinned the 2020 shooting death of a man in the autonomous zone on city officials.

The case concerned Lorenzo Anderson, a 19-year-old who was shot near the edge of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, also known as CHOP or CHAZ.