A 15-year-old Washington authorities lad accused of murdering his parents and 3 of his siblings wrong their location was banned from contacting his sole-surviving sister during a proceeding connected Tuesday.
The teen, whose sanction has not been released publically owed to his age, waived his close to look successful tribunal Tuesday for his archetypal proceeding astatine the Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center successful Seattle, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said.
Prosecutors asked the justice to complaint the teen fishy with 5 counts of first-degree execution and 1 number of attempted first-degree murder. The suspect’s defence lawyer said the teen had nary anterior transgression history. A charging determination is expected aboriginal this week.
The justice besides ordered the teen to person nary interaction with idiosyncratic whom prosecutors described arsenic the surviving subordinate of his contiguous family.
Police described the shooting arsenic a home unit incident. (FOX13 Seattle KCPQ)
The surviving household subordinate was identified arsenic an 11-year-old girl, who had been changeable doubly earlier escaping the location successful Fall City during the shooting aboriginal Monday morning.
Deputies responded astir 5 a.m. to reports of a shooting astatine the location and instantly took 1 teen into custody portion different injured juvenile was taken to a Seattle hospital. When deputies entered the home, they discovered the bodies of 2 adults and 3 juveniles.
The shooting happened successful the Lake Alice vicinity of Fall City, Washington, aboriginal Monday. (FOX13 Seattle KCPQ)
King County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mike Mellis said investigators judge the radical killed had been shot. Their names and causes of decease person not yet been released.
The 11-year-old miss was successful "satisfactory condition" astatine Harborview Medical Center successful Seattle connected Tuesday, infirmary officials said. Police had initially said the injured idiosyncratic was a teenager.
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)
The 15-year-old was booked into King County’s juvenile detention facility, and nary different arrests were expected, Mellis said.
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The parents were identified arsenic Mark and Sarah Humiston, KING-TV reported. Mark reportedly worked arsenic an electrical engineer, though fewer details astir the household were instantly available.
Neighbors told FOX13 Seattle that a mates and their 5 children lived astatine the home, describing the household arsenic polite. Others added that the children were homeschooled and utilized to assistance their parents and neighbors with location projects.
Community members held a vigil connected Tuesday nighttime for the family.
"Small municipality and tragedy, everybody comes together," Shelley Yohn told FOX13.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.