Renton PD: Mom zip-tied family, executed teen daughter A 52-year-old woman allegedly accused her estranged husband of 'ruining her life,' reports say

Renton police arrested a 52-year-old woman Tuesday night after she allegedly tied up her family and fatally shot her teen daughter. Renton police arrested a 52-year-old woman Tuesday night after she allegedly tied up her family and fatally shot her teen daughter. Photo: Sergio Da Costa / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm Photo: Sergio Da Costa / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm Image 1 of / 63 Caption Close Renton PD: Mom zip-tied family, executed teen daughter 1 / 63 Back to Gallery

Renton police arrested a 52-year-old woman Tuesday night after she allegedly tied up her family and fatally shot her teen daughter.

Reports indicate that if the gun hadn't jammed after she shot her daughter, more deaths might have followed in the suburb just south of Seattle.

The woman's ex-husband had custody of their two children, a 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. She was allowed only supervised visits with her children, court documents indicated.

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Renton police said she went to their house in the 4700 block of Smithers Avenue South while her son was home alone. When the father and daughter returned home from an event in Seattle, they found the woman inside the home holding a Taser, which she used against her ex-husband, according to the incident report. She had already allegedly zip-tied the 12-year-old boy, who was left upstairs.

The woman then bound her ex-husband and drew a pistol, saying she was going to shoot him "because he had ruined her life," according to Renton police.

The daughter ran upstairs with a phone and called 911 about 8:13 p.m. She told the call taker that her mother had a Taser and had bound her brother. Minutes later, she reported that her father screamed something about her mother having a gun. The girl told the call taker about 8:25 p.m. that her mother was headed upstairs, then slipped the phone in her pocket with the line still open, reports say.

The incident report said the 911 call receiver could hear the woman yelling in the background, asking where the phone was, then accusing her daughter of calling 911. She was then allegedly heard saying something about "blow your head off." The call receiver then heard a noise similar to zip ties being secured, followed by a bang. Someone then screamed about someone being dead, according to the report.

Officers arrived about 8:32 p.m., met by the father, his legs still bound by the zip-ties. He surrendered a jammed pistol to the police. Cops also detained the woman and pulled the tied-up son from the home.

Searching the home, police found a Taser and discovered the teen girl upstairs in her bedroom, dead with a gunshot wound to her head.

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The father claimed that after being tied up and threatened with the gun, his ex-wife headed upstairs and he heard a gunshot. She then returned downstairs and tried to fire the gun at him, but the gun jammed, reports say. As she struggled to fix the gun, he allegedly checked her into the wall with his shoulder and disarmed her.

The son told cops that his mother came over and asked him to show her around the house. She brought some of his old clothes over, saying she lost her job and she could only afford to give him his own used clothing for Christmas, according to the incident report. The woman then walked her son upstairs and zip-tied his hands and legs. She stuffed a sock into his mouth and taped it in, but later removed the sock and threatened to use her Taser on him if he made noise.

She then allegedly ranted about how her ex-husband ruined her life. Minutes later, her ex-husband and daughter arrived at the house and she went downstairs to confront them.

The son also heard his mother shoot his sister during their dispute, he claimed. He hopped to his sister's room and found her head covered in blood.

A King County Superior Court judge ordered the woman remain jailed without bail for investigation of first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder and three counts of unlawful imprisonment.

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