Washington state teen in custody after shooting at home leaves 5 of 7 family members dead

A teen successful Washington authorities is successful custody aft authorities accidental a domestic unit incident wrong a location near 5 household members changeable dormant and a sixth wounded connected Monday.

Deputies responded astir 5 a.m. to reports of a shooting astatine a location successful Fall City and instantly took 1 teen into custody portion different injured teen was taken to a Seattle hospital, King County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Mike Mellis said astatine a media briefing Monday afternoon.

Deputies entered the location and discovered the bodies of 2 adults and 3 juveniles.

"Once bodies were discovered, intelligibly we recognize that this is simply a hugely important transgression scene," helium said.

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One teen was taken into custody and a 2nd teen was hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Deputies recovered 3 different juveniles and 2 adults dormant astatine the scene. (FOX13 Seattle KCPQ)

A teen miss who was changeable doubly had escaped and ran to neighbors for help. She was taken to Harborview Medical Center, wherever aesculapian officials said she was successful "satisfactory condition," FOX13 Seattle reported.

"I lone saw the children successful the driveway yesterday afternoon," neighbour Lynne Trowern told the outlet. "I’m shocked. I kept bursting into tears."

The shooting happened successful the Lake Alice vicinity of Fall City, Washington, aboriginal Monday. (FOX13 Seattle KCPQ)

A erstwhile neighbour told FOX13 that the children were each polite and were homeschooled. Others described however the children utilized to assistance their parents and neighbors with location projects and however the household utilized to locomotion astir the water astir each day.

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Mellis said the shooting appeared to impact members of a family, though investigators didn't yet cognize however they were related.

Police described the shooting arsenic a home unit incident. (FOX13 Seattle KCPQ)

King County Councilmember Sarah Perry said successful a connection that her "heart aches for the lives lost," saying that "five household members, retired of seven, were tragically killed."

"Early this morning, we learned astir a unspeakable concern successful the Lake Alice vicinity of Fall City, successful which 5 household members, retired of seven, were tragically killed," she wrote.

King County Sheriff Patti Cole-Tindall told reporters that the shooting near her "very sad, precise disturbed."

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"I cognize that my squad volition bash an fantabulous occupation by investigating this, and we volition find the facts related to this incident, but that could instrumentality respective days, weeks, months," Cole-Tindall said.