A man is accused of shooting and killing a woman in a Sammamish home Thursday night, then fleeing with his 1-year-old son.
A man is accused of shooting and killing a woman in a Sammamish home Thursday night, then fleeing with his 1-year-old son.
A Sammamish father faces a murder charge after investigators say he allegedly shot and killed his wife of two weeksin their home Thursday night using a gun he’d purchased the day before, then fled to Seattle with his 1-year-old son.
A King County Superior Court judge found probable cause Fridayto keep the35-year-old man in jail on suspicion of second-degree murder in the killing of 36-year-old Yiwen Lu. He was being held in King County Jail on $3 million bail Monday, King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokesperson Casey McNerthney said.
The Seattle Times typically does not name suspects until they have been charged.
Lu died from multiple gunshot wounds to her head, according to a report by the King County Medical Examiner.
The couple married on Jan. 16, King County records show.
A person who identified herself as the man’s attorney called police Thursday night to report someone had been shot in a home on 262nd Avenue Southeast. The attorney told police the person who notified her of the shooting had left the home with his son, and that she could not provide more information, according to a King County Sheriff’s Office report filed in court Friday.
Deputies responded to the home at 11:35 p.m. Thursday, finding Lu on a bed in a bedroom with a sheet covering her body past her neck. A deputy pulled the sheet down, revealing what appeared to be a gunshot wound on Lu’scheek and two shell casings near her head. Deputies kicked down the locked door of another room where they found a gun next to a drum kit, the detective’s affidavit states.
The 35-year-old man allegedly sent the lawyer a video of his son, “who appeared safe,” but investigators told the attorney they needed to see the child in person to confirm he was safe. The lawyer said the boy was at an aunt’s home in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood, where detectives found him “in good health,” according to the affidavit.
The aunt told detectives that the man dropped off his son at her house and told her there was an emergency, and that his father planned to return the next day to pick up the boy. The man’s brother-in-law, who was in Hawaii, also told investigators he received a “distressed” call from the man who said something had happened, but didn’t say what, the affidavit states.
The attorney told investigators one of her clients, a man she did not identify, called her asking for legal advice and they decided she would call 911, court records show. The attorney, who is registered with the Washington State Bar Association, did not respond to inquiries Monday to confirm whether she is his lawyer.
Records showed the man purchased a 9 mm Ruger pistol Wednesday. Investigators conducted a search warrant of his home, where they found the gun, according to the affidavit.
He went to speak with detectives at Sammamish City Hall where deputies arrested him Friday, court records show.