Fall City teenager shot and killed family and made it look like a ‘murder-suicide’

AUTUMN CITY, Washington. – The 15-year-old boy accused of shooting his family in Fall City on Monday, he was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Newly filed charging documents say the teenager shot his family and then staged it as a “murder-suicide” committed by his 13-year-old brother. County dead list identifies members of the Humiston familyincluding parents Mark and Sarah, 13-year-old Benjamin, 9-year-old Joshua and 7-year-old Katheryn. The causes of their deaths were determined to be “multiple gunshot wounds” and a “gunshot wound to the head.”

Charging documents say the boy called 911 around 4:55 a.m. Monday, out of breath, stating that his younger brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide too” and that he was hiding in a downstairs bathroom.

He told 911 operators that his younger brother had shot his family and himself after being “caught watching pornography the night before and that he was about to get into serious trouble,” according to court documents.

During this conversation, his 11-year-old sister escaped from the house and ran to a neighbor’s house a quarter of a mile away, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck, and told neighbors that her family had been shot.

According to court documents, the girl testified that she heard shots and screams in the house, then saw her brother’s face, after which he shot her. She told authorities she held her breath and played dead and that she was afraid her brother would follow her to a neighbor’s house to find her.

Police arrived on scene and took the 15-year-old boy into custody, while the injured sister was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.

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