The father of a 19-year-old shot and killed in Seattle’s “autonomous zone” said that “nobody” from the city has reached out to him to console him or provide him with information after his son’s death almost two weeks ago.
“It’s like they didn’t care, it didn’t matter,” Horace Lorenzo Anderson, Sr. said during an emotional interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “I haven’t heard from the mayor. I haven’t heard from the police department, no city — nobody.”
“It’s like they didn’t care, it didn’t matter. I haven’t heard from the mayor, I haven’t heard from the police department, not from no city – nobody.”
Mr. Anderson says no gov’t official reached out to him to offer their condolences for the death of his son in Seattle’s CHOP. pic.twitter.com/UHapAS3v4T
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) July 2, 2020
“They need to come talk to me, and somebody needs to come tell me something because I still don’t know nothing,” Anderson Sr. added about his son’s death. “Somebody needs to come to my house and knock on my door and tell me something. I don’t know nothing. All I know is my son got killed up there.
“They say, ‘He’s just a 19-year-old.’ No, that’s Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. That’s my son, and I loved him.”
“The only way I found out was just two of his friends, just two friends that just happened to be up there, and they came and told me,” Anderson Sr. said. “They weren’t even from Seattle. Now, mind you, I haven’t heard — the police department, they never came.”
He was killed on June 20 in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood within the six-block or so radius that the city ceded to Black Lives Matter protesters, commonly referred to as CHOP or CHAZ, with Mayor Jenny Durkan’s endorsement.
Durkan referred to the occupied zone as “patriotic” and similar to a “block party.”
Anderson Sr. said earlier this week and reiterated Wednesday night during his Fox News interview that the autonomous zone should have been shut down a long time ago, and the National Guard should have been called in.
Anderson Sr. addressed the Black Lives Matter movement during the interview and said he understands their sentiment but wants them to know about his son’s homicide.
“I understand Black Lives Matter and everything that’s going on,” Anderson Sr. said. “But that’s not my movement right now. My movement is [to] let them know that was my son.”
