killed by a motorist as they protested for Black lives in downtown Seattle.Taylor and Diaz Love, who both use nonbinary pronouns, were among a group of protesters that had taken over Interstate 5.
They were hit by Dawit Kelete when he drove his car the wrong way on an off-ramp, around vehicles that blocked the freeway, and then into a crowd of frantically dispersing protesters.
Taylor and Love were immediately taken to Harborview Medical Center, arriving in critical condition.Taylor tragically died just hours after being taken off of life support in the hospital; Love would later be moved from the ICU and upgraded to stable condition there. “I cannot believe Summer was murdered,” Love wrote on Facebook shortly after learning Taylor had.