A 15-year-old boy accused of killing his parents and three siblings at their Washington state home shot them and then called police to falsely claim that his brother committed the slayings, according to court documents.
The 15-year-old, 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 Fall City.
Two adults and three children 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. The medical examiner’s office identified them as Mark Humiston, 43, Sarah Humiston, 42, and their children Katheryn, 7, Joshua, 9, and Benjamin, 13.
An 11-year-old sister who was shot but survived by playing dead managed to escape 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.
The attempted murder count has a firearms enhancement, which allows for a greater sentence if the teen is convicted, the prosecuting attorney’s office said.
About 4:55 a.m. Monday, the 15-year-old called the King County Sheriff’s Office and claimed that his 13-year-old brother had “just shot my whole…
