Tuesday, October 29, 2024 – A woman in Washington state has been arrested and charged with m*rder after her shifting stories surrounding the de@th of her 73-year-old landlord landed in self-defense.
Police first got involved with the case after receiving a call at
approximately 7:15 pm on Friday, October 25, about the elderly woman's de@th
from the suspect's brother-in-law.
He told the King County Sheriff's Office that his sister-in-law had
called her sister, his wife, saying that she k!lled someone and had shown her a
body on a video call.
None of
the identities of the people involved have yet been released by authorities.
When
police contacted the 19-year-old suspect, based on information provided by her
sister and brother-in-law, she initially denied there even was a de@d body. She
told the dispatcher "it was all a joke and that she was all the way in
Everett with a friend," according to the police's probable cause
statement.
After
further questioning by the 9-1-1 operator, the suspect's story changed and she
reportedly confessed, "I k!lled her."
She went on to detail the alleged incident, saying that the landlord
"tried to punch me, and I st@bbed her."
Additional
details emerged after the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office released
the probable cause documents. Those documents detail that the suspect had lived
in the building for approximately one year.
When
deputies arrived on the scene, they found a dece@sed woman in the
residence.
The
suspect was read her Miranda Rights and, according to police documents,
confessed again to killing her landlord.
After she was brought in for questioning, the woman told detectives she
had recently "been behind on rent," which is what triggered the
incident.
She allegedly told authorities her landlord pulled her into another room
and asked about the rent, at which time the suspect claims the older woman
"struck her in the face." The suspect went on to claim a fight broke
out between the two, where the victim "pulled her hair and the drawstring
on her hoodie during the struggle."
In response, the suspect said, according to the court
documents, she hit the victim back "hard" and st@bbed her "twice
with a knife that was already in the room."
When asked what would've happened if she hadn't st@bbed the victim, detectives
report the woman responding, "Nothing," saying that her landlord
"would still be alive and I wouldn't be here."
According to the brother-in-law, the
suspect had been making threats for the past month that she would k!ll her
landlord "if she asked her again about paying rent." He said they did
not take her threats seriously.
He and the suspect's sister used to live at
the same residence, but moved out a month ago, according to police, but the
landlord would still contact them, as well, about the suspect's late rent.
The suspect has been charged with
second-degree m*rder and is currently being held in the King County Jail on a
$2 million bond.
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