A 15-year-old boy from Washington state allegedly killed his parents The only surviving member of the family told police that the three siblings checked their pulses to ensure that they were dead after being shot.
The teen is accused of killing parents Mark and Sarah Humiston, brothers Benjamin, 13, Joshua, 9, and sister Katherine, 7, after opening fire with their father’s gun at their $2 million suburban Seattle mansion last week.
Then as they lay bleeding on the floor, he methodically walked up to the three family members he had killed in the hallway “by touching their necks or chests to see if they were alive, “The boy’s 11-year-old child – the elder sister told the police.
She survived by pretending to be dead and then climbing out of the window.
According to charging documents obtained by The Post, the girl was awakened by the sound of gunshots just before 5 a.m. and walked out her bedroom door to find her father and her 13-year-old brother lying dead in a pool of blood in the hallway Was. ,
Katherine – with whom she shared a room and slept in a bunk bed – was shot when she walked out of her bedroom and into the hallway to check on the noise.
Her brother then came into the room and allegedly shot the 11-year-old in the neck and arm, walked out of the room and checked the bodies in the hallway.
He entered her room for a moment but she closed her eyes and held her breath, pretending to be dead.
According to charging documents, she fled to a neighbor’s house by running across the street through a “fire window” in her room. Her neighbors called 911 and the girl was taken to Harborview Medical Center where she identified her 15-year-old brother as the shooter to authorities.
At the same time as his neighbors were calling, the gunman also called 911 and told dispatchers that his 13-year-old brother had killed their family and “taken himself out.” He claimed that his brother had been in trouble for watching pornography the night before, which caused the uproar.
According to charging documents, she staged a bloody scene before first responders arrived in an attempt to pin the murders on her dead brother, even putting a gun in his hand.
He was immediately taken into custody.
When asked about a possible motive, the gunman’s sister told investigators that he had recently gotten into “a lot of trouble” for failing some tests at school.
The 15-year-old girl was the only child in the family who knew the combination to the lockbox containing the Glock handgun that her father kept at the front door to get to work, he said.
Prosecutors charged the alleged teenage gunman — who was not identified because of his age — last Thursday with five counts of first-degree aggravated murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.
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