Seattle Times staff | |Seattle Times | Dec. 2, 2024 at 9:44 pm
Bellevue police arrested an 87-year-old man accused of stabbing his 86-year-old wife to death Monday at a senior living complex in the Crossroads neighborhood.
Around 1:45 p.m. Monday, people reported hearing screams coming from an apartment at the Sunrise of Redmond assisted living facility in the 15200 block of Northeast 20th Street. An employee at the facility told police she heard the man say he “murdered somebody,” according to a probable cause statement written by a Bellevue detective.
The man had barricaded himself in the apartment. Officers asked him if anybody was hurt inside.
“Yeah,” the man reportedly said.
After about 13 minutes of trying to negotiate with the husband, police forced their way in and took him to the floor. Officers reported they rolled the man over and found a knife “concealed under where he was taken to the ground.”
Police then discovered the woman in a chair, with stab wounds to her chest. She died despite efforts to save her by Bellevue police and firefighters.
The man appeared to not understand his Miranda rights, so police did not ask him “investigative questions,” according to the cause statement.
King County jail records showed the man was booked for investigation of homicide Monday. A judge found probable cause Tuesday for domestic violence murder in the second degree, said Casey McNerthney, a spokesperson for the King County prosecutor’s office. McNerthney said there were no previous cases involving the man on record in the county.
The man has not been formally charged as of Tuesday evening. The Seattle Times generally does not name suspects until prosecutors have filed charges.
The judge set bail at $2 million Tuesday.
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