Two arrested for Christmas Eve family murders
December 28, 2007
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A man and a woman were arrested today in connection with the brutal Christmas Eve slayings of six people in a rural community in northwestern Washington state, police said.
Sergeant John Urquhart, a King County Sheriff’s Department spokesman, said a couple were being held following the grisly discovery of six bodies at a remote home in Carnation, 33.8km east of Seattle.
The victims, including a six-year-old girl and three-year-old boy, represented three generations of the same family - a couple in their 50s, a couple in their 30s and the two young children.
They were killed on Monday “apparently by gunshot”, Sergeant Urquhart said. No further information about the victims’ identities or their relationships to each other was immediately available.
Police said the alarm was raised after a co-worker of one of the victims visited the property on Wednesday when a colleague had failed to arrive for work, and subsequently discovered the bodies of three people.
Police were called and found the bodies of three more people during a search of the property, which sits on 11 acres and includes numerous outbuildings.
Sergeant Urquhart said the couple arrested in connection with the killings were in their “20s or 30s” and that they “did know the family but we don’t know the relation”. The police spokesman said it was possible that the couple lived in a home on the property.
It is the fourth high-profile shooting in the US this month, after a 19-year-old gunman killed eight people in a shopping mall in Nebraska on December 6, and a gunman carried out two shooting sprees in Colorado on December 10.
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