11-year-old girl pretended to be dead after her 15-year-old brother shot her and the rest of the family – Crime Online

A 15-year-old boy accused of killing five members of his family called 911 and blamed the shooting on a 13-year-old brother who he said had committed suicide.

But at the same time that call came in, his 11-year-old sister, who pretended to be dead after the boy shot her in the neck and hand, called 911 from a neighbor’s house and identified the older boy as the shooter. . KIRO reported.

The mass murder took place early Monday morning in Fall City, a community in Washington state east of Seattle. as reported by CrimeOnline. Police said they received multiple 911 calls just before 5 a.m., and an affidavit filed with the boy’s charges details those calls.

Investigators initially said they believed all of the children involved were teenagers, but the investigation showed that only the shooter and the brother he tried to pin the murders on were teenagers. The other three children were 11, 9 and 7 years old.

Court documents say the 15-year-old, who has not been named because of his age, although all of his victims have been identified, was “breathless” when he called 911 and said his 13-year-old brother “just to shoot”. my whole family and I also committed suicide.” The boy said he was hiding in the bathroom and that his brother had been caught watching porn the night before and was in a lot of trouble.

However, while the older teen blamed his younger brother for the massacre, his 11-year-old sister, who described “holding her breath and playing dead” after the 15-year-old boy, whose face she clearly saw, shot him. she escaped out a window and ran to the neighbor’s house once she heard him leave the room and overheard him talking to someone on the phone, presumably his fake 911 call.

The sister told investigators that the older boy had “got into a lot of trouble” after failing tests at school. He also told detectives that the 15-year-old was the only one of the five children who knew the combination to his father’s gun safe. She said the boy used “his father’s silver Glock pistol” to kill his parents and siblings.

The police arrived and detained the boy. When they arrived at the police station, the lawyers told them that the murderer would not speak to them.

In court documents, investigators say the boy “systematically murdered members of his family (unknowingly not killing his 11-year-old sister) and then “staged the scene before first responders arrived to make it appear that his “younger brother had committed the murders and then committed suicide.”

The teenager’s victims have been identified as Mark and Sarah Humiston, ages 43 and 42, and three of their children: 13-year-old Benjamin, 9-year-old Joshua, and 7-year-old Katheryn. All five were shot in the head.

The unnamed killer has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and one count of attempted murder.

The 11-year-old girl remains hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she is in satisfactory condition.

According to CBS NewsThe accused killer is being held in a juvenile detention center and will be arraigned on Friday. He is currently charged as a juvenile and a judge will determine if the case “will be moved to adult court.” The King County Prosecutor’s Office noted that sentencing guidelines are different for juveniles even if they are tried in adult court.

Public defenders for the accused killer issued a statement earlier this week saying the boy “is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal record” before gunning down his entire family.

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(Featured image: Mark Humiston/LinkedIn and Sarah Humiston/Facebook)