SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle police are investigating another shooting that happened near the city’s “occupied” protest zone.
The shooting happened around 5 a.m. A spokesperson at Harborview Medical Center said the man’s wounds were not life-threatening.
It was the third recent shooting near CHOP, the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.”
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday the city will move to wind down the protest zone following the shootings. The mayor said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters opposing racial inequity and police brutality.
Durkan also said police will soon return to a police station that the department largely abandoned in the area after clashes with protesters.