Seattle police Chief Shon Barnes on Thursday declared a Little Saigon hookah lounge, where a man was fatally shot earlier in the week, a chronic nuisance property, documenting assaults, a fatal overdose, and repeated violations of the city’s nightlife ordinance by remaining open past 2 a.m.

It’s the third time since taking the helm of the Seattle Police Department in January that Barnes has invoked the mechanism in city code aimed at stemming violence and drug or prostitution activity at problem properties with a high number of police responses.

The Evangadi Hookah Lounge at 419 Rainier Ave. S. hasn’t reopened for business since a patron got into an argument with an employee outside the front door just before 8 a.m. Monday and fired into the lounge, killing 34-year-old Khalif Hussein. Po

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