By formerly incarcerated law school graduates and journalist Ginny Burton.
I’ll let it speak for itself through the voices of those interviewed.
SEATTLE — Washington State Patrol (WSP) is investigating a homicide after a person was found dead at an encampment near Interstate 5 Friday morning.
According to WSP, the body was found at about 9 a.m. when encampment resolution workers entered an area at the juncture of I-5 and I-90 to clean and smelled a strong odor of decomposition. WSP said the area had been home to an encampment on state right-of-way property, but the campers had moved out.
King County said it is still moving forward with a plan to open an old motel next to the site of the now-emptied refugee camp in Kent. Refugees pleaded for months with local government to open the doors of the Econo Lodge.
The asylum seekers, many from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Venezuela, relied on donations of food and supplies for months until Tuesday, when county coordinators and outreach workers loaded them on buses to temporary shelter. Their camp on a parcel of county land at Central Avenue near State Route 167 was brought down later that day, and a county official said workers are in the process of cleaning it.