t was early morning after his graduation day.
It could have been a joyous weekend. One to celebrate his accomplishments: earning a diploma from Interagency Academy’s Youth Education Program (YEP) after time spent in and out of school. One that represented the fork in a path that’d been paved by struggle — he wanted stable housing, to hold down a job, to eventually have a family.
But 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson, who went by his middle name, was dead.
Anderson was one of two people shot Saturday morning at the edge of the Capitol Hill protest zone known as CHOP, or Capitol Hill Organized Protest. Seattle Fire Department officials say he was pronounced dead at Harborview Medical Center at 2:53 a.m. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed his identity Monday and said he died from multiple gunshot wounds.
The other person who was shot, a 33-year-old man, remained in critical condition at Harborview as of Monday.
Horace Lorenzo Anderson Jr. (Courtesy of Aushinae Washington)
