A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents and three siblings shot them and then called police to claim that one of the victims killed his family and then himself at their home in Washington state, according to court documents.
The boy, whom NBC News is not naming because of his age, was charged Thursday with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the slayings Monday morning in
Two adults and three children — 7, 9 and 13 years old — were found dead shortly before 5 a.m. Monday after a shooting was reported at a home in the Lake Alice Road neighborhood in Fall City, about 25 miles east of Seattle.
An 11-year-old sister who was shot but survived by playing dead managed to escape the home through a window and went to a neighbor’s home, a King County sheriff’s detective wrote in an affidavit.
She was hospitalized and has been discharged, a spokesperson for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle said Thursday.
The 15-year-old boy was arrested the day of the shooting and was being held in a detention facility for juveniles Thursday
All six criminal counts have been filed with a designation that they are acts of domestic violence, the prosecuting attorney’s office said. The attempted murder count has a firearms enhancement, which allows for a greater sentence if the boy is convicted.
About 4:55 a.m. Monday, the 15-year-old called the King County Sheriff’s Office and claimed that the 13-year-old who was killed “just shot my whole family and committed suicide, too,” a sheriff’s detective wrote in a probable cause statement.
Investigators say that the claim is false and that the teen staged the scene to blame one of the victims, Detective Aaron Thompson wrote in the document.
The surviving 11-year-old sibling told police that her 15-year-old brother shot her and her family with a Glock handgun that belonged to their father, the probable cause statement says.
She told investigators that the teenager shot her and then left the room and that she heard someone shouting “stop” and “help” before she escaped, the detective wrote
