Horace Lorenzo Anderson, the father of a 19-year-old black man who was shot dead last month within the Seattle Capitol Organized Protest (CHOP), publicly called for answers on “Hannity” Wednesday night, saying police and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has been unable to reach him since his son’s death.
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“They need to come talk to me and someone has to come tell me something, because I still don’t know anything,” Anderson told host Sean Hannity. “Someone has to come to my house and knock on my door and tell me something. I don’t know anything. All I know is that they killed my son up there.”
“They say, ‘It’s just a 19-year-old.'” No, that’s Horace Lorenzo Anderson [Jr.]. That’s my son and I loved him. “
“Someone has to come to my house and knock on my door and tell me something.”
Young Anderson was killed early on the morning of June 20, when gunshots were heard near Cal Anderson Park at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street within the CHOP zone. A 33-year-old man was injured in the shooting.
Anderson Sr. burst into tears as he remembered learning of his son’s death.
“The only way I found out was just two of his friends, just two friends who were there and they came and told me,” he said. “They weren’t even from Seattle. Now, look, I haven’t heard – the police department never came …
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“Someone should have come and knocked on my door and … should have come, to talk to me and let me know about my son. To this day, I really don’t know anything. I’m still sitting here. I don’t know anything.” .
Anderson, who plans to bury her son on Thursday, told Hannity that he is “numb” and unable to sleep because questions about his son’s last moments remain unanswered.
“I still don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “I’m listening to YouTube. I don’t know anything. All I know is that my son is dead. I’m still trying to find answers so I can sleep. I don’t sleep. My children don’t sleep. I can’t even stay home. My children feel that They’re not safe at home. I’ve been buying motel rooms and I don’t have that kind of money. I wasn’t ready for this. “
“My son needed help, and I don’t think they have helped my son,” Anderson said of the law enforcement. “My son needed help, and I don’t think they’ve helped my son … I feel like he doesn’t, without this, he would be nobody. He is just, never mind, just another boy. Just another boy, just swept away under the rug and that’s it and forgotten. “
At one point in the interview, Hannity was thrilled when Anderson described the daily trauma of waking up realizing that her son is no longer alive.
“I wake up in the morning … I look for my son in the morning. He is no longer there. Do you know what I am saying? It is as if I go there, I am kissing a photo. He is not there.”
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“You are taking generations away,” he continued. “You are taking away our youth. You are taking away, my son never had a chance to have another child. My grandson would never be … that’s a generation that took me away.”
“I understand Black Lives Matter and everything that is happening,” Anderson said at another point in the interview. “But that’s not my move right now. My move is [to] let them know that that was my son. “
Despite her pain, Anderson told Hannity, “I am being a Christian now, in my heart” as he tries to lead his family through this time of tragedy.
“Everything is in God’s hands now,” he said. “God will take care of that, I feel like … God will take care of me and take care of my son.”
