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Updated · NPR · Jun 4Antonio Mays Jr., 16, Was Shot Dead at Seattle's CHOP in 2020
3 articles · Updated · NPR · Jun 4Summary
- Antonio Mays Jr., 16, was killed less than a week after traveling about 1,000 miles to Seattle during the 2020 Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
- CHOP had become a focal point of that summer's racial justice movement, drawing people from across the country, including Mays.
- His shooting remains unsolved, leaving one of the protest zone's most high-profile killings without resolution years later.
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