- As authorities uncover disturbing facts about the killing spree, a 15-year-old boy who is suspected of shooting and killing his parents and three siblings in their affluent Washington state home made an appearance in court on Friday.
- In relation to Monday’s attack in Fall City, an unincorporated village about 25 miles east of Seattle, the youngster is accused of five counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. When deputies arrived, they discovered his parents, Mark and Sarah Humiston, and three of his siblings, aged seven, nine, and thirteen, dead.
- In order to decide whether to try the juvenile suspect in adult court, prosecutors requested a hearing on Friday. The hearing is set for June 4 and a plea will not be entered until then.
- The adolescent allegedly used his father’s gun, which was kept in a lockbox, according to the authorities. According to court documents, the suspected shooter was the only youngster in the house who knew the lockbox code.
- According to court documents, the suspect called the King County Sheriff’s Office just before five in the morning on Monday, claiming that his brother had just “shot my whole family and committed suicide too.” According to investigators, the suspect shot his parents and siblings before manipulating the scene to accuse his brother.
- According to the affidavit, the suspect’s 11-year-old sister claimed that she woke up to gunshots and discovered her father and one of her brothers lying in the hallway. The girl claimed to have seen her sister being shot by the perpetrator.
- The suspect then came into her bedroom and fired the gun, according to the affidavit, and she felt blood on her neck and hand. The girl stayed still and held her breath before she escaped through her bedroom window and ran to her neighbor’s house, who called 911.
- The 11-year-old claimed to have identified the firearm “as her father’s silver Glock handgun,” according to court documents. According to her, her father occasionally placed the rifle next to the front entrance in a tiny lockbox so he could carry it to work.
- When investigators asked her what issues the suspect had at home, she told them “he had recently gotten into ‘a lot of trouble’ for failing some tests at school.”
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