Allen Ivanov was nineteen when he murdered three teenagers at a house party in Washington State. According to court documents Allen Ivanov was upset that his former girlfriend was moving on with her life and leaving him behind would enter a house party outside of Seattle Washington and opened fire. Allen Ivanov would end up killing three teenagers and injuring two more. This teen killer was arrested and would later plead guilty to three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder and would be sentenced to life in prison without parole
Grief and rage filled a Snohomish County courtroom Thursday as the family and friends of the three young people shot dead by Allen Ivanov at a Mukilteo house party last summer confronted the 20-year-old before seeing him sent to prison for the rest of his life.
One after another, those shattered by the July 30 shootings — mothers, fathers, siblings, cousins and friends — tried to find words to describe their loss. Sometimes, all that came were tears.
Ivanov, 20, also spoke publicly for the first time since his arrest, saying he was sorry for what he’d done and had no explanation for his actions. Otherwise, his defense presented no evidence.
“How could I have done this? I could not say,” Ivanov said, reading from a folded notebook paper he pulled from his striped jail jersey.
At one point, he blamed “the ease of acquiring a gun,” referring to the assault-style rifle he had purchased about a week before the deadly shootings. He also claimed “Satan was in control” that night.
“I want to apologize wholeheartedly to all those whose lives I’ve taken,” he said, naming the three people he killed and a fourth who was wounded. “And all those whose lives have been darkened by my actions.”
He said he was “hopeless, suicidal and outraged with jealousy” when he targeted ex-girlfriend Anna Bui and former high-school classmates. Police say he was angry at Bui for spurning his efforts to reconcile and stalked her at the gathering of friends.
“Anna visits me in my dreams and talks to me all the time,” he said shortly before Superior Court Judge Janice Ellis sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of release, a sentence predetermined when Ivanov pleaded guilty to avoid the possibility of the death penalty.
“You deserve to be separated from society for the rest of your life, and you shall,” she said.
Earlier, some of the people whose lives were forever altered by the shootings addressed the packed Everett courtroom.
“Allen Ivanov has stolen so much from so many people,” said Autumn Snider, whose son Jake Long was killed. “Three innocent people are dead because Allen killed them.”
Snider carried a dark, ceramic urn to the stand.
“This is what I have left of my son — ashes in an urn that sits on my mantle,” she said as many in the courtroom sobbed. “Jake is gone, he is dead, and Allen killed him.”
Paul Kramer, whose son Will was critically wounded by Ivanov, said, “This is an absolute nightmare for all involved.”
Kramer spoke of his heartbreak for the families of the three teens, all of whom were former classmates of Ivanov at Mukilteo’s Kamiak High School
“The pain of their loss is beyond what any human being should endure,” Kramer said of the families of the slain victims. He called Ivanov a “completely defective human being,” noting the killer had planned the shootings in advance and bragged about them in rap lyrics written in jail.
Alex Levine, who was at the house party, addressed the court while accompanied by a therapy dog. In a halting voice, he said he was forever impacted by the deaths of three close friends and that he is haunted by the images of his dead friends’ bodies.
“At the age of 19, I had to attend the funerals of three of my friends in the span of three weeks,” he said.
David Bui, brother of Anna Bui, said, “The last time I saw her she was going out. The next time she was in a coffin.”
Jordan Ebner’s father, Brad Ebner, was visibly angry as he spoke while surrounded by court bailiffs. He said he had wanted Ivanov to be executed.
“I want him to die and I wanted to be there to watch it happen,” he said. “He took my first boy.”
As each person spoke, Ivanov looked down at the floor or his lap, showing little emotion.
Ivanov’s life sentence was preordained after he pleaded guilty last month to three counts of aggravated first-degree murder as well as two counts of attempted first-degree murder. By doing so, he avoided a possible death sentence had he been convicted at trial.
Gabriel Gaeta was convicted in the rape and murder of a six year old girl in Washington State. According to court documents Gabriel Gaeta would take the little girl to a remote location where she was sexually assaulted and murdered. The crime went unsolved until the police found the body of the child and through DNA testing were able to link Gabriel Gaeta to the murder.
Gabriel Gaeta took a very long time to proceed through the courts as he was first declared mentally incompetent due to mental illness however after spending time in a mental hospital Gabriel Gaeta would stand trial and would in turn plead guilty to the murder and sexual assault. This teen killer would be sentenced to forty years to life in prison
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Gabriel Gaeta, the man who pleaded guilty in February to the 2014 rape and murder of 6-year-old Jenise Wright, was sentenced Monday, June 18, to 40 years to life in prison, plus 123 months to be served concurrently.
The sentence is expected to close the legal proceedings on a story that made national headlines but saw a slow resolution due to a number of factors, including questions about Gaeta’s mental health and his competency to stand trial.
In handing down the punishment, Kitsap Superior Court Judge Jennifer Forbes said that she was obligated to take into account additional factors — known as the Miller factors — in juvenile criminal cases such as this: the age of the defendant at the time the crime was committed; the defendant’s life experiences; the degree of responsibility the defendant was capable of exercising; and the defendant’s chances of being rehabilitated.
But while Forbes noted Gabriel Gaeta had experienced a difficult childhood, including physical abuse at the hands of a family member, she did not see a connection between his history and the crime he ultimately committed.
“[I]t’s unclear to this court how these experiences impacted Mr. Gaeta in a way that led to the crimes that he committed against Jenise,” Forbes said, “other than what is obvious — that they appear to contribute some of his mental health issues … but the conclusions that he had a chaotic childhood impacted what he did to Jenise lacks a connection for this court. I’m missing this link.”
“Without knowing the [‘why,’] it becomes difficult to link some of these issues that were identified about Mr. Gaeta to the crime itself,” Forbes added.
In the end, Forbes concurred with the sentence recommended by attorneys for both sides. Gabriel Gaeta will be approximately 57 years old before he has a chance of being paroled.
Gabriel Gaeta and Wright were neighbors in the Steele Creek Mobile Home Park in East Bremerton at the time of her disappearance. Wright was reported missing in August 2017 and her body was found several days later in a mud bog in nearby woods. She had been strangled.
On Aug. 7 — the same day her body was found — a search warrant was executed on Gaeta’s home. The search led to the discovery of blood-stained items, including clothes and a towel. DNA samples taken from Gabriel Gaeta and the crime scene were a match.
Gabriel Gaeta, now 21, was 17 at the time of his arrest. He ultimately pleaded guilty to aggravated first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child in February.
At a competency hearing on Feb. 22, 2017, Gabriel Gaeta was found not fit to stand trial. Judge Forbes ordered the defendant’s admission to Western State Hospital for a period of up to 90 days for “competence restoration.”
Gabriel Gaeta began a period of “close observation” on May 16, 2017, because of “reported history of engaging in behaviors that appeared to reflect suicidal ideation,” according to an August 2017 report filed by doctors.
He initially refused to take psychiatric medication, but following a violent incident with hospital staff members — doctors reported that Gabriel Gaeta was lying down and facing a wall with a pillow covering his head. He then physically assaulted staffers who attempted to turn him. Kitsap County Superior Court ordered his involuntary medication, after which he was deemed competent.
Gabriel Gaeta did not speak at his sentencing. His attorney, Jeniece LaCross, said Gabriel Gaeta was in no condition to speak, but read aloud a letter he wrote to be entered into the record.
“I took a young girl’s life away from her and from her family and friends,” Gaeta’s letter said. “I feel like that should never happen to anybody, and no one should have to experience that. I can’t put into words how bad I feel about this. I wish I could make amends for this. I don’t know why I did it.”
Gaeta’s mother, Tina Wright, advocated for her son to eventually get a second chance, pointing to his ability to be coached into being a top wrestler at Olympic High School.
“Gabe is a person who can learn, grow … and become a productive member of society,” Tina Wright said.
Orlean Almojera, Jenise’s grandfather, choked up while reading letters from family members and then one of his own in which he recounted the grief and sadness the family has gone through over the past three and a half years.
“We are all so sad, angry and heartbroken that we will never get to see our granddaughter finish elementary, high school, graduate, attend college get married and have children of her own.”
Denise Wright, Jenise’s mother, spoke at length about her daughter’s upbeat attitude, liveliness, precociousness and intelligence.
“You could tell she was going to be a special little girl,” Denise Wright said. “Her smile and friendliness would brighten up anyone’s day. She was the sunshine in our family and now it’s gone.
“I will always miss her and love her. And now she has no life to experience, and I feel that he shouldn’t have one either.”
Jake Eakin and Evan Savoie were both twelve years old when they would murder an autistic teenager. According to court documents Jake and Evan would beat and repeatedly stab Craig Sorger. During trial the information came out that the murder was premeditated from how they would get the victim out of his home, where the murder would take place and the story they would tell police.
Both of the teen killers would be convicted of murder. Eakin would plead guilty and would be sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Savoie went to trial and received a twenty six year prison sentence that would be later be reduced to twenty years. Jake has been released from prison
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Evan D. Savoie is going back to prison.
The 23-year-old man pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in Grant County Superior Court Monday morning.
Savoie was facing a second trial for murder in the first degree for killing 13-year-old Craig Sorger in 2003.
The Washington State Court of Appeals, Division III, overturned Savoie’s first conviction in October 2011, ruling a closed hearing violated Savoie’s rights.
Savoie faces between 12 years and three months and 21 years and two months in prison when he is sentenced.
Chief Deputy Prosecutor Ed Owens told visiting Douglas County Superior Court Judge John Hotchkiss prosecutors plan to ask for 20 years and four months in prison when Savoie is sentenced, according to court records. The victim’s family doesn’t agree with the resolution, but the Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorney’s and Ephrata’s police chief agreed with it.
Savoie was initially sentenced to 26 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree.
Defense Attorney Michael Felice plans to ask the judge for a lesser sentence, and Savoie will be examined by an expert prior to his sentencing. Felice stated, in a declaration asking for the expert, he plans to present evidence about mitigating circumstances including Savoie’s age maturity, sophistication and developmental condition at the time of the crime.
Savoie and Jake Eakin were 12 years old when they beat and stabbed Sorger to death, according to court records. Savoie dropped a rock on the victim’s head and pressured Eakin to take part.
The day of the murder, Savoie and Eakin were dropped off at Oasis Park in Ephrata. They went to Sorger’s house and invited him to play, according to court records.
Sorger’s mother became concerned when the boy didn’t return. His body was found in Oasis Park.
Eakin pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in April 2005 and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Convicted child-murderer Jake Eakin is now a full-time anti-abortion protester.
Eakin and Evan Savoie were both found guilty in the death of Craig Sorger.
It was a brutal case that shocked the small town of Ephrata and made history at the state level because, at the time, the murderers were just children
Now, 15 years later, Eakin says he is now working to save lives because of his violent past.
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It was February 2003 when 13-year-old Sorger was viciously beaten and stabbed to death in a wooded area near his house in Ephrata.
His mom said two boys came to her door, Savoie and Eakin. They were asking if Sorger, who was considered mildly autistic, could come out and play. That was the last time she saw her son alive.
Sorger’s body was found that night at Oasis Park, covered in leaves and dozens of stab wounds.
Court records show police immediately suspected Savoie and Eakin. Despite their initial claims that Sorger fell out of a tree, both boys were charged as adults with first-degree murder, making Eakin the youngest in Washington history to face those charges as an adult.
In 2006, Eakin abruptly reversed course. He accepted a plea deal on second-degree murder by complicity. In court, he testified that Savoie had been the ringleader, first attacking Sorger with a large rock, then beating him with tree branches and stabbing him dozens of times with a knife.
Eakin was eventually sentenced to 14 years in prison and Savoie received 26 years.
At the time, Eakin said he was filled with anger.
“In prison, I spent a lot of time in lock-up, in solitary confinement because of trouble I got into. There was a block of time that I spent 14 months in there. I got out, and then I went back in there and served another nine months. That’s a good two-and-a-half years that I spent by myself. That was the time that I started to educate myself,” he said.
Eakin said he became an avid reader, devouring works about the Holocaust, slavery and the Bible.
“When the Lord saved me, I was in a county jail,” Eakin said.
After escaping work release in June 2016 and being re-arrested in South Dakota, Eakin was sent to the Yakima County Jail, where he said he found God.
“It was like a radical transformation,” he said.
Even with his newfound faith, Jake Eakin floundered a bit when he was released from jail in 2017. It all changed while watching an abortion protest video on YouTube.
“Something happened in that moment where a switch went off and the Lord kind of opened my eyes to the pre-born and abortion,” Eakin said.
Since then, Eakin has called himself an abolitionist and stages Planned Parenthood protests and anti-LGBTQ demonstrations across the region.
Instead of shrinking away from the public eye, Jake Eakin now seems to welcome the spotlight — some say a bit too much.
“He wants attention. And that’s his goal. That means is just a way to bring more attention to himself,” said Planned Parenthood spokesperson Paul Dillion. “No patient should ever come through our doors and have to face that kind of harassment and intimidation.”
KREM 2 asked Jake Eakin why he uses such abrasive tactics to get attention.
“Well, think of it this way. If we had a holocaust of 2-year-olds, instead of pre-born children, our response would be radically different, right? And so, the reason that I’m an abolitionist is because I believe in being consistent. Meaning, I believe children are being murdered down the street to where I live,” he said.
KREM 2 also asked him what he thinks when people call him the worse kind of hypocrite.
“So, this is where the beautiful thing is for me. We serve a God that can forgive murderers. And so, what I would say is that, we live in a culture that would, rightly, point a finger at me and say ‘murderer,’ ” he responded. “I am a murderer. Been redeemed through Christ. That same grace is being offered to all these mothers and fathers that are taking their children to Planned Parenthood. That’s why I’m out there.”
“I think he’s a con artist. I think he wants money. This is his job and he will say whatever he can to try and have people believe in him,” Dillion said.
Jake Eakin said he does consider his abolitionist ministry a full-time job, sometimes getting paid to do graphics and videos for various organizations. He said he financially supports his family mostly through donations.
What does Craig Sorger’s family think of their son’s murderer? KREM 2 reached out them multiple times but did not hear back. After the murder trial, they told KREM 2 their sense of loss will never be fully healed.
“I would love the opportunity to express to seek their forgiveness, to express my sorrow, to talk to them about their boy,” Jake Eakin said. “There’s probably not a day that goes by that I don’t look back at that. For me, it gives me a greater value of all life. I know how valuable it is. I’ve seen how fragile it is. And now, being older, being a man that’s experienced a lot in life, I can understand more than I could when I was 12 years old.”
Jake Eakin isn’t allowed to contact the Sorger family.
For some, Eakin’s past crime is simply unforgivable, while others believe his past is what makes his message today even more powerful.
Maryanne Atkins was sixteen years old when she fatally shot a man in 2016. According to Maryanne Atkins the man she shot and killed raped her when she was sleeping however the prosecutors believe it was a cold blooded murder who would pose with the weapon on Facebook after the murder which was committed when she was sitting in the victims car. This teen killer who had a brutal upbringing would ultimately convicted of murder and sentenced to nineteen years in prison
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A 19-year-old Seattle area woman was sentenced Thursday to 19 years and 3 months in prison for the 2016 murder of a man she intended to rob.
Maryanne Atkins pleaded guilty Dec. 3, 2018 to one count of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree unlawful firearm possession, after she was charged with the murder of Emmanuel Gondo on Feb. 24, 2016. Atkins was 16 years old at the time, Gondo was 21.
In a King County courtroom benches filled with over 40 witnesses including the family and friends of the victim, Emmanuel Gondo, and the 86-year-old former neighbor of Atkins, Cherie Ferguson, who spoke on her behalf. Atkins’ attorney held her trembling hand as the judgment was delivered.
Judge Marshall Ferguson deliberated before the court the defense for Atkins, but ultimately came to the conclusion that her traumatic life as a sexual abuse survivor and neglected child didn’t provide a sufficient enough defense for the crime she committed. He also said the lies and denials she told during trial weighed on his decision.
The defense had argued for a reduced sentence based on the immaturity of the defendant because of her troubled youth, in line with a decision by the Washington Supreme Court that demanded youth be taken into consideration when sentencing.
“When teenagers are backed into a corner, they lie,” he said, but added the “cruelty of the lies she told,” that denigrated Gondo’s character, went beyond anything attributable to youth.
“The unwillingness of the defense to call her out on her lies and manipulation undermine her rehabilitation,” prosecuting attorney Jessica Berliner told the court.
Prosecutors argued that any self-defense was false, and that the robbery which led to the murder was planned, based on messages from Atkins to a friend that Gondo was an “easy lick,” or an easy person to rob. Because of this, they argued, Atkins’ trauma as a child was no excuse for the way she shot Gondo.
Both sides, and the judge, acknowledged promise for Atkins’ rehabilitation. With the prosecutors’ recommended sentence, Atkins would be released from prison in her late 30s, over 20 years since her first day in juvenile detention in 2016.
Gondo’s family’s pastor, George Everett, spoke to the court, telling the judge that the decision made would affect how his community thought of the place they had come to, to escape civil war.
“What will our children learn, from what has happened to one of them,” Everett said. “Will it be maybe because you’re from Africa or you don’t speak the language as much as the people speak it, stuff can be fabricated or your life does not matter.”
The defense argued early during the sentencing that they had provided evidence of juveniles thinking and acting differently than adults, especially when confronted with dangerous situations.
Atkins at one point during the trial accused Gondo of raping her before she shot him, a claim that Mother Jones reported in an article likening the case to the Cyntoia Brown clemency.
Atkins’ attorney Colleen O’Connor alluded to evidence provided during the trial that Atkins’ trauma from childhood affected her thinking and the way she reacted. Two different psychologists interviewed her and both opined that her life with an abusive father, neglectful mother and living on the streets led to her “perception that her life was in danger the night of the murder,” court documents said.
One psychologist said he found Atkins convincing when she told her about Gondo raping her, court documents said.
The defense ultimately withdrew the testimony from the psychologists, and Atkins wrote in a document that she “intentionally” shot Gondo while robbing him.
Cherie Ferguson spoke to the court and confirmed the abuse Atkins received from her father when she was about 10 years old, living in Everett.
“I know the hell she went through,” Cherie Ferguson told SeattlePI. “She was troubled and acted out, and it led to this.
“If she gets that sentence, she’s got a snowball’s chance in hell.”
Atkins was sentenced to spend the next two decades in the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, Washington. She has 30 days from March 21 to appeal the sentence.
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Seattle police say a 16-year-old girl posted photos of herself on Facebook posing with a 9 mm handgun she used to “coldly” kill a man in his car in the Rainier Valley.
Maryanne Marie Atkins has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Emmanuel Gondo on Feb. 23, according to King County prosecutors.
Atkins, who had outstanding warrants and had repeatedly run away from foster placement, apparently killed Gondo after deciding to rob him, charging papers say. She is being held in the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent in lieu of $1 million bail.
Evidence in the case suggests “the defendant coldly shot a man in the head while he was seated in his car and then robbed him of his money and cellphone,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jessica Berliner wrote in charging papers. “She also appears to have taken the firearm she used to kill him and kept it for the following two months. A review of her Facebook messages in the weeks after the murder reflect no concern or remorse for her actions.”
After Gondo failed to pick up his girlfriend from work on Feb. 23 and didn’t respond to phone calls, the woman and her two siblings went looking for him. They found Gondo slumped over the steering wheel of his black Jaguar just before 3 p.m. the next day, near 33rd Avenue South and South Holly Street, say the charges.
Gondo’s brother told detectives that a few days before the shooting a friend had introduced him and his brother to a girl, according to charging documents. That girl brought a friend — Atkins — over to the brother’s apartment on Feb. 22, and the group hung out together that night, say the charges.
The following evening, Feb. 23, the brothers and the two girls were together in Gondo’s car. After Gondo dropped off the other girl and his brother, he was alone with Atkins, charging papers say. He made his last phone call at 10:48 p.m., say the charges.
The brother told detectives Gondo regularly carried large sums of cash and had $3,000 in $100 bills on him the first night the group had hung out together.
According to the charges, Atkins sent Facebook messages before the shooting, indicating Gondo was “a fat … lick for racks thang and car” — street slang for a robbery (‘lick”) of money (“racks”) and a gun (“thang”). In messages sent after the shooting, Atkins suggested to one friend that what she had done would make the news, say the charges.
On Feb. 27, Atkins posted a photo of herself on Facebook, pointing a gun at the camera, the charges say.
Following Atkins’ arrest last week at a house in Federal Way, police searched the residence and found a 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a wood grip in the room where Atkins had been staying, according to the charges. The gun belonged to Gondo, police say.
A 19-year-old Seattle area woman was sentenced Thursday to 19 years and 3 months in prison for the 2016 murder of a man she intended to rob.
Maryanne Atkins pleaded guilty Dec. 3, 2018 to one count of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree unlawful firearm possession, after she was charged with the murder of Emmanuel Gondo on Feb. 24, 2016. Atkins was 16 years old at the time, Gondo was 21.
In a King County courtroom benches filled with over 40 witnesses including the family and friends of the victim, Emmanuel Gondo, and the 86-year-old former neighbor of Atkins, Cherie Ferguson, who spoke on her behalf. Atkins’ attorney held her trembling hand as the judgment was delivered.
Judge Marshall Ferguson deliberated before the court the defense for Atkins, but ultimately came to the conclusion that her traumatic life as a sexual abuse survivor and neglected child didn’t provide a sufficient enough defense for the crime she committed. He also said the lies and denials she told during trial weighed on his decision.
The defense had argued for a reduced sentence based on the immaturity of the defendant because of her troubled youth, in line with a decision by the Washington Supreme Court that demanded youth be taken into consideration when sentencing.
“When teenagers are backed into a corner, they lie,” he said, but added the “cruelty of the lies she told,” that denigrated Gondo’s character, went beyond anything attributable to youth.
“The unwillingness of the defense to call her out on her lies and manipulation undermine her rehabilitation,” prosecuting attorney Jessica Berliner told the court.
Prosecutors argued that any self-defense was false, and that the robbery which led to the murder was planned, based on messages from Atkins to a friend that Gondo was an “easy lick,” or an easy person to rob. Because of this, they argued, Atkins’ trauma as a child was no excuse for the way she shot Gondo.
Both sides, and the judge, acknowledged promise for Atkins’ rehabilitation. With the prosecutors’ recommended sentence, Atkins would be released from prison in her late 30s, over 20 years since her first day in juvenile detention in 2016.
Gondo’s family’s pastor, George Everett, spoke to the court, telling the judge that the decision made would affect how his community thought of the place they had come to, to escape civil war.
“What will our children learn, from what has happened to one of them,” Everett said. “Will it be maybe because you’re from Africa or you don’t speak the language as much as the people speak it, stuff can be fabricated or your life does not matter.”
The defense argued early during the sentencing that they had provided evidence of juveniles thinking and acting differently than adults, especially when confronted with dangerous situations.
Atkins at one point during the trial accused Gondo of raping her before she shot him, a claim that Mother Jones reported in an article likening the case to the Cyntoia Brown clemency.
Atkins’ attorney Colleen O’Connor alluded to evidence provided during the trial that Atkins’ trauma from childhood affected her thinking and the way she reacted. Two different psychologists interviewed her and both opined that her life with an abusive father, neglectful mother and living on the streets led to her “perception that her life was in danger the night of the murder,” court documents said.
One psychologist said he found Atkins convincing when she told her about Gondo raping her, court documents said.
The defense ultimately withdrew the testimony from the psychologists, and Atkins wrote in a document that she “intentionally” shot Gondo while robbing him.
Cherie Ferguson spoke to the court and confirmed the abuse Atkins received from her father when she was about 10 years old, living in Everett.
“I know the hell she went through,” Cherie Ferguson told SeattlePI. “She was troubled and acted out, and it led to this.
“If she gets that sentence, she’s got a snowball’s chance in hell.”
Atkins was sentenced to spend the next two decades in the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, Washington. She has 30 days from March 21 to appeal the sentence.
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A Seattle-area teen accused of posing with her victim’s gun after fatally shooting a man in his car has been charged with first-degree murder.
Maryanne Atkins, 16, is accused of killing Emmanuel Gondo, who was found dead in the driver’s seat of a black Jaguar parked in South Seattle.
“The evidence suggests that the defendant coldly shot a man in the head while he was seated in his car and then robbed him of his money and cell phone,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Jessica Berliner said in charging papers.
“A review of her Facebook messages in the weeks after the murder reflect no concern or remorse for her actions,” the prosecutor continued. “Instead, she posted pictures of herself wielding a gun that is likely the murder weapon.”
Investigators described Atkins as a chronic runaway. Washington State Patrol issued a missing persons statement describing her as missing from Seattle since Feb. 2. Her listed address is a Department of Social and Health Services office in West Seattle, though she appears to have been living in Burien as recently as December.
Prosecutors claim Atkins, who was arrested Wednesday in Federal Way, planned the robbery ahead of time. Due to the nature of the allegations, Atkins automatically faces prosecution as an adult.
Gondo, 21, was found dead Feb. 24. at 2:45 p.m. near the intersection of 33rd Avenue South and South Holly Street. He had been shot once in the head.
Writing the court, a Seattle police detective said Gondo’s cellphone and gun were missing, as was his wallet. Investigators were told he may have been carrying up to $3,000.
The detective said text messages show Atkins planned to rob Gondo. She said a pistol was found in the Federal Way apartment where Atkins was staying prior to her arrest
Gondo had been out the night before with his brother, according to police statements. He was last seen alone with Atkins shortly before midnight.
The day after the killing, Atkins told a friend she “spazzed” out on Gondo after becoming upset with him. The teen is alleged to have posted a statement on Facebook referring to the killing.
“IM (expletive) TIRED and hot,” she wrote, according to court papers. “You don’t know what I did, you’ll see on news.”
Atkins later posted a picture on Facebook of herself with Gondo’s gun, according to a detective’s statement. She also appeared to have come into a significant amount of money. Before Gondo’s death, she couldn’t afford a hotel room; afterward, she was looking to buy a car
According to charging papers, Atkins denied killing Gondo following her arrest and initially claimed to have only touched a gun during a middle school field trip.
Atkins has been jailed since her arrest. She is expected to be arraigned May 2 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Shalin Alltus and her boyfriend Parker Bachtold would shoot and kill her uncle in Washington State. According to court documents Shalin Alltus and Parker Bachtold were staying on her uncle’s property and believed that the uncle was trying to end their relationship so they decided to kill him. After shooting the victim the teen killers would flee the property. Shalin Alltus and Parker Bachtold were both convicted of the murder and sentenced to thirty eight years in prison.
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A five-day trial didn’t reveal why two teenagers shot and killed 39-year-old Patrick Alltus at his Riverside home on Sept. 30, 2014.
But an Okanogan County jury was convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that his niece, Shalin E. Alltus, was just as guilty as Parker Bachtold.
Alltus was sentenced in Okanogan County Superior Court to 38 years and four months in prison on Tuesday, after a jury found her guilty Monday of first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree robbery, theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of theft of a firearm and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm.
At sentencing, defense lawyer Kelly Seago told the judge that Shalin Alltus had been raped and kidnapped at age 13, and that past and family issues should be considered before sentencing, the lawyer said. Seago also accused Patrick Alltus of sexual misconduct with his niece, and said she was too afraid to reveal that relationship to police.
“He’s the one person I had that I loved,” Shalin Alltus told the judge before she was sentenced. “I was very scared to explain the relationship with my uncle because I don’t want him to be seen as a bad guy,” she said, adding, “I just want you to know I never would have wanted this to happen.”
Judge Henry Rawson told her that she had ample opportunity to tell her story — to a State Patrol trooper who stopped them after they fled the murder, to a motel manager in Oregon, or to Bachtold’s parents before her arrest.
The jury found her not guilty of a special finding sought by the prosecutor that the murder was aggravated. For that special finding, the jury would have had to find that the murder was committed in the furtherance or flight from a robbery or burglary.
They deliberated for about four and a half hours.
Bachtold pleaded guilty to the same crimes earlier this month and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Now both 18, Alltus and Bachtold were 16 years old when Patrick Alltus was discovered dead a few days after the killing.
During Alltus’ trial, no clear motive was revealed. But Alltus testified under questioning that she had twice had sex with Bachtold, and that her uncle did not allow them to sleep together.
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A woman who murdered her uncle in Riverside in 2014 must be resentenced, with an appellate court ruling that she was denied a chance to present evidence that might have affected her 38-year-prison term.
After her conviction in 2016, Shalin E. Alltus, now 21, asked Okanogan County Superior Court Judge Henry A. Rawson to order a presentence report and allow her lawyers to investigate mitigating circumstance. Rawson turned her down on all counts, and as a result last week the state Court of Appeals threw out her 38-year sentence.
Rawson should have accepted the request, Appellate Judge Laurel Siddoway wrote for the three-judge panel, in part because Alltus was only 16 at the time of the murder. The issues Alltus sought to raise in a presentence investigation, Siddoway wrote, “were the type of matters our Supreme Court requires sentencing courts to consider when a juvenile is involved.”
Alltus and her then-boyfriend Parker Bachtold, also 16, shot and killed her uncle Patrick Alltus, 39, in his Riverside home in October 2014. Both had been living on his property, and fled to Oregon after the murder.
Bachtold pleaded guilty to first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree robbery, theft of a motor vehicle, and two counts each of theft of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm. At trial Alltus blamed the murder solely on Bachtold, while while Bachtold testified that he and Alltus both shot the victim, with Alltus firing first.
A jury convicted Alltus on all counts, and Rawson sentenced her the following afternoon, turning down her lawyers’ pleas for a delay and presentence investigation. The judge said such report “would add nothing significant” for consideration.
But Alltus’ attorneys said the report would touch on her ongoing psychiatric treatment and counseling, her family history and upbringing, and a rape and kidnapping Alltus experienced at age 13.
The appellate court said while Rawson’s handling of the sentencing phase did not invalidate Alltus’ conviction, it did require remand for a new sentence, after a presentence report is prepared by qualified investigators with the Department of Corrections.
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The Okanogan County Sheriff’s office is investigating the death of a Riverside man and questioning two teenage suspects arrested in Oregon driving the dead man’s stolen pickup.
The sheriff’s office is investigating the death of Patrick M. Alltus, 39, Riverside, as a possible homicide. On the evening of Sunday, Oct. 5 county deputies responded to a call at 151 Hosheit Road in the Tunk area regarding a death. When they arrived on the scene they contacted a friend of Alltus who said he had found the victim in his residence, according to Sheriff Frank Rogers.
“At this time we are treating it as a murder investigation. We are not putting out what we found at the scene at this time so that investigators have time to process the scene. It is evident that there was a lot of violence at the scene but we are not sure of exact cause of death for Alltus,” said Sheriff Rogers on Monday.
The two 16-year-old teenagers living at the residence were not on the scene and Alltus’ pickup was missing, so authorities listed the pickup as stolen and put out an alert saying the teens were wanted for questioning. The sheriff’s office also warned that the two might be armed with a shotgun and pistol.
The teens were contacted by Oregon authorities on Oct. 1, but were not arrested at that time and it was still being determined where the teens were headed. Oregon authorities notified the Okanogan County Sheriff’s office on Monday, Oct. 6 that they had located the stolen 2004 Ford pickup from the homicide scene and had also located the two missing teenagers, Parker M. Bachtold and Shalin E. Alltus, in Douglas County, Oregon.
“Both of the teenagers have been taken into custody at this time for the stolen vehicle. Detectives from Okanogan Sheriff’s Office are en route to Oregon to make contact with law enforcement there. Bachtold and Alltus were located south of Eugene Oregon,” said Rogers.
Okanogan County Deputies and members of the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab went to the scene to investigate. The Crime Lab finished processing the crime scene late Monday night. The only information the sheriff’s office is releasing at this time regarding the scene is that the victim was shot several times, according to Rogers.
“Detectives believe that the two teenagers are the suspects in the homicide case and will be trying to determine what happened at the scene and a possible motive,” said Rogers, who added, an autopsy will be scheduled for Patrick Alltus.
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