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Rampage began with deaths of suspect's mother, nephew
Saturday, May 29, 1999
By SCOTT SUNDE
BRIER -- A 22-year-old man killed his mother and 2-year-old nephew on a quiet cul-de-sac here yesterday, beginning a violent rampage that ended hours later when a sheriff's department sniper shot the suspect to death in Shoreline.
The bodies were found by the woman's husband.
Brier police Chief Gary Minor said the woman lived in the house with her husband and the suspect, who had lived there for several months. The boy's parents live in Seattle. Authorities weren't certain where the boy lived.
"There's no motive. We don't know why it happened. We don't know what happened," Minor said.
The car involved in the hit-and-run accident in Shoreline was the dead woman's car, he said.
The boy, the nephew of the suspect, was found in an upstairs playroom on the floor, and his grandmother was found in a hallway outside the playroom.
Neighbors knew little about the people who lived in the house. "They are very private," said 15-year-old Sarah Abel, who lives across the street. Her father, Richard, said he met the man who lived in the house only once. That was when the man moved in. He introduced himself as "Jimmy." Property records list owner of the house as James R. Lindsey.
Other neighbors said they had never seen the woman who was slain and knew nothing about children living in the house.
Another neighbor, Richard DeFrancesco, said paramedics and police began arriving in the neighborhood about 3 p.m. But DeFrancesco and other neighbors said they heard or saw no signs of trouble before then.
But neighbors said the man came home and discovered the bodies of the woman and the boy. Sarah Abel said she saw the man after the police arrived and that he looked stunned.
The man and the others lived in a large two-story house on the end of the cul-de-sac on 214th Street Southwest. It is in a part of this suburb known as Brierwood.
It is a neighborhood of Little League baseball, children on bikes and block watches. Neighbors said they knew everyone, except the people who lived in the house where the slaying occurred. It was the first murder in Brier since 1990.
Ron Riccetti moved here 16 years ago to get away from the crime of Seattle's Beacon Hill. "This is pretty scary for me," he said. "I thought I'd moved away from it, but I guess you never do."
P-I reporter Scott Sunde can be reached at 206-448-8331 or scottsunde@seattle-pi.com
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