Teen Arrested After 5 Family Members Killed in ‘Domestic Violence Incident’ at Home in Fall City, Washington; another injured

AUTUMN CITY, Washington. A 15-year-old was arrested Monday after five people were found dead in a home in Fall City, Washington, in an incident “perpetrated with a gun,” authorities said.

Two adults and three children were found dead after deputies responded Monday morning to 911 calls about a “gunfire disturbance,” according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.

The victims were Mark and Sarah Humiston and their three children, and the suspect is their 15-year-old son, CNN affiliate KING5 reported.

Mark was an electrical engineer and Sarah was a nurse, KING5 reported. The children killed were “young teenagers,” Mike Mellis, a deputy and spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said at a news conference Monday.

Another child – a girl – was injured and taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She was in “satisfactory” condition on Tuesday, a hospital spokesperson told CNN.

“It appears this is a family incident, clearly a domestic violence incident involves not just a young man who is now in significant trouble, it involves firearms. Young men and firearms,” ​​Mellis told reporters Monday.

There have been at least 427 mass shootings this year in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one that injures or kills four or more people, not including the shooter.

The Washington state killings were “perpetrated with firearms” and “there was no significant confrontation” with the suspect when he was arrested, Mellis said.

The suspect waived his appearance at his first appearance in juvenile court on Tuesday, according to his public defense attorneys.

Prosecutors have not formally charged him because the case has not yet been referred to them by authorities, according to Casey McNerthney, spokeswoman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office.

In a statement, the teen’s attorneys, Amy Parker and Molly Campera, described their client as a “15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal record.”

“Once again, the law says our client is presumed innocent of these charges, and we are grateful for a judicial process that requires evidence and evidence before there can be a trial,” the lawyers said.

A neighbor said she was “in complete shock” to learn of the deaths.

“I keep crying,” neighbor Lynne Twern told KING5. “That’s why I have to go to my daughter’s house, because I can’t stay here alone. I keep seeing the children’s faces.”

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