Man Claims ‘Proud Boys or KKK’ Yelled Racial Slur, Shot Him Outside Seattle’s CHOP
A man who was shot outside of Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHOP) is calling the attack a “hate crime” and attributing it to the “Proud Boys or KKK.”
DeJuan Young, 33, was shot in an area right outside CHOP over the weekend after attempting to flee the sound of gunshots, which ultimately left one teenager dead.
Young said he heard the first shooting and attempted to get away from the area and head home when a group of four men approached him. He claims they uttered a racial slur before shooting him and believes it was a racially motivated attack.
“So basically I was shot by, I’m not sure if they’re ‘Proud Boys’ or KKK,” Young
said, according to KIRO 7. “But the verbiage that they said was hold this [N-word] and shot me.”
Young did not clarify whether the men actually grabbed hold of him but said that the force of the shots “pushed him onto the hood of the car,” according to the local report.
“And they stood over top of me and continued to fire,” he claimed, without explaining how his assailants were above him on the car, apparently firing from point-blank range, without fatally wounding him. “I tried to protect myself and got shot in the arm. And they got away.”
Volunteers in the area transferred Young to Harborview Medical Center, where he is being treated for his injuries. Young has
uploaded videos from his hospital bed to TikTok, saying that he was “shot five times in the stomach” in addition to his arm. He suggested he was making the video because he wanted the world to know “his story” — specifically, that Seattle police “left me out there for dead.”
The local reports on Young caught the attention of Kalen D’Almeida, the co-founder and field reporter for Scriberr who was allegedly
attacked in CHOP earlier this month after filming rapper Raz Simone, the area’s unofficial leader. He has identified the man as one of his attackers based on photos uploaded to Young’s social media accounts:
Man Claims 'Proud Boys or KKK' Yelled Racial Slur, Shot Him Outside Seattle's CHOP
