#Dad of Seattle CHOP shooting victim files $3B in claims against government

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Horace Anderson, father of shooting victim Lorenzo Anderson

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The father of a 19-year-old man who was fatally shot inside Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone in June has filed $3 billion claims against local and state governments for allegedly allowing an atmosphere of “lawlessness” that resulted in his son’s death.

Horace Anderson, 50, lost his special-needs son Lorenzo Anderson on June 20 in a shooting incident that also injured a 33-year-old man.

“I just want to see justice for my son,” Horace told The Post noting that no arrests had been made yet for the killing. “Somebody has to be held responsible. Something is not right and my son should still be alive to this day.”

Lorenzo was shot multiple times and “laid bleeding to death in the Seattle streets with no one to respond,” allege papers filed with Horace’s separate $1 billion claims against the city, King County and the state of Washington.

Confusion and blockades led to a 20-minute delay before first responders finally arrived on scene — only after good Samaritans had already taken Lorenzo to the hospital, the claim papers filed Wednesday allege.

“With no assistance or rescue from Seattle first responders, Lorenzo died in agony from his wounds,” claim the documents filed by lawyer Evan Oshan say.

“He didn’t have help. He needed help,” Horace told The Post. “He needed me and I wasn’t there for him.”

But before the botched emergency response, city officials had allowed, “politically charged armed, anarchist protesters to infiltrate, takeover, and govern a part of downtown Seattle,” and King County and the Governor, “did not intervene and stop this state of lawlessness,” the claim papers charge.

“Everyone was walking around with guns. It’s like the wild wild west,” Horace said.

Normally, “You figure the police come in and they shut it down and clean up the area,” Horace said. “I never knew that people could come in and take over a whole city. That means there is no safety. The police aren’t doing their job.”

A week after Lorenzo’s death, a 16-year-old teen boy was also shot and killed in the CHOP zone.

The two deaths finally led cops in early July to clear protesters from the zone. Still, there was a protest and vandalism in the city on Monday night, the Seattle Times reported.

Now, two months after Lorenzo’s death, Horace said, “Every morning I wake up and I miss him and I’m crying.

“Just today I’m just driving down the street crying thinking about it going to the dentist,” the dad said.

The three claims are a precursor to filing a lawsuit, which Oshan says he and his client plan to do.

“They try to sweep stuff under the rug,” Horace said. “I’m not here to be quiet. That’s my son. I’m not going to be quiet for nothing.”

King County, the Seattle Mayor’s office and the Washington Governor’s office separately did not immediately return requests for comment.