A mass stabbing yesterday in liberal Washington has left four dead. The incident occurred in Gig Harbor, just outside of Tacoma. According to the article, one of the victims had called 911 at 8:45 am claimant the suspect was violating a no-contact order. While police were en route, another call to 911 reported that the suspect was stabbing people. The suspect was shot dead by police at 9:30 am. The article elaborates:
Police have since confirmed the no contact order was not yet valid because it had not been served to the suspect.
Officer were given a copy of the order to serve the suspect, but by the time they arrived at the scene, he had already carried out his stabbing spree.
The Guardian reports that the suspect "was the subject of domestic violence protection orders recording mental health and substance abuse issues stretching back at least five years."
The Seattle Times reported that the mother, who has also not been named, had pressed for two protection orders since December 2020. Those early protection orders reported that the woman’s son had been having mental health problems and had threatened her daughter with a knife inside the home.
In the petition to Pierce county superior court last April, the woman said that her son was delusional and saw himself as “an Egyptian god”. She had returned home to find her cat missing and pictures that had been hanging on the wall destroyed.
The court granted a protection order requiring him to leave his mother’s house where he had been living and to keep 1,000ft from the property. He was also banned from possessing weapons and told to follow a mental health treatment plan that had been prepared for him involving medication.
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