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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015
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Son charged with second-degree murder after father is shot SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Vanessa Reich describes her neighborhood as a nice and peaceful place to live. So seeing police vehicles pulling onto her street in unincorporated King County east of Redmond on the evening of Jan. 9 was quite a surprise. Deputies from the King County Sheriff ’s Office were responding to a call they received at 5:25 p.m. for a family disturbance. According to a sheriff ’s office press
release, a 22-year-old man had allegedly shot and killed his 51-year-old father at their residence in the 22000 block of Northeast 75th Street — which is next door to Reich’s home. Reich was home at the time, but said she did not hear any gunshots. “We just started seeing cop cars pull in. Pretty freaky. They were parked all the way up and down the road,” she said. “It’s sad when we found out what happened. We saw it on the news.” Reich said she knew the grandmother living at the home, but not any other family members.
“I’d see (the father) walk the dogs, but I never ever was out here to talk to him or anything. I don’t think my husband ever talked to him,” said Reich. The son, Mark Karasek, was charged Tuesday afternoon with second-degree murder, accused of fatally shooting his father, Zdenek Karasek. In addition, Mark was also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree. Court documents state that at about 5:15 p.m., the father and son were arguing while the latter’s girlfriend, [ more SHOOTING page 3 ]
Pictured is the house in the 22000 block of Northeast 75th Street in unincorporated King County east of Redmond where a son was arrested after his father was fatally shot on Jan. 9. ANDY NYSTROM, Redmond Reporter
Sex-trafficking suspects arrested after two victims from Redmond contacted the department, Rosick said. This week, police arrested On Jan. 2, DeLay and 48-year-old David DeLay Comer were charged with and 20-year-old Marysa three counts of promoting Comer on felony warrants prostitution in the second with the Redmond Police degree, one count of extorDepartment (RPD). tion in the second DeLay’s warrant degree and one was for secondcount of tampering degree promoting with a witness. prostitution and In addition, tampering with a DeLay is charged witness. He was arwith trafficking and rested Monday eveComer is charged David DeLay ning at Seattle–Tawith cyberstalking coma International and criminal imperAirport after arrivsonation in the first ing on a flight from degree. Chicago. DeLay These latter was booked into charges were in King County Jail, the certification said Janessa Rosick, for determination public information of probable cause coordinator for the Marysa Comer paperwork that the RPD. Redmond detecComer’s wartives submitted rant was for second-degree prior to the arrest warrants promoting prostitution and getting issued, said Rosick. second-degree extortion. According to the chargShe was arrested by the FBI ing documents, each count Tuesday night in Chicago of promoting prostitution at a hotel and was booked was for knowingly advancinto Cook County Jail in ing and profiting from Chicago. Rosick said RPD the prostitution of three is working with the FBI to separate victims — one of extradite Comer back to the which is developmentally Seattle area, which may take disabled. In one count, the a few weeks. documents state that DeLay RPD learned about this [ more ARRESTS page 5 ] SAMANTHA PAK
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Getting into the pigskin Seahawks spirit
Bitsy the pig from Farrel-McWhirter Farm Park joins the Redmond Senior Center and Redmond Recreation staffs to show their Seahawks spirit on Jan. 9. See page 8 for a preview of Sunday’s Seahawks vs. Packers NFC title game. Courtesy of the City of Redmond
Local Muslims speak out against Paris attack SAMANTHA PAK spak@redmond-reporter.com
Last week’s attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was said to have been carried out in the name of Islam, as the publication made jokes about Islamic leaders and the prophet Muhammad. Whenever an event such as this occurs, focus tends to turn to the world’s Muslims — and not always in a good way.
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“We’re attacked for our religion all the time,” said Kifah Hamdan, a Redmond resident and mother of four.
Hamdan, who was born in Detroit and grew up in New Orleans, said as a Muslim, she shouldn’t have to defend herself and that Islam is a peaceful religion. “To me, those people are not Muslims,” she said, referring to the terrorists who claim to act in the name of her religion. Koloud “Kay” Tarapolsi, another Redmond resident, agreed. She said according to Islamic text, the prophet said to pray for those who mocked him — such as the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo — not to kill them. Mahmood Khadeer, the president and one of the founders of the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS)
in Redmond, echoed this sentiment in a letter he sent out to the mosque’s community. In the letter, Khadeer — who said MAPS condemns the acts carried out by the terrorists last week — said some opponents of the prophet “insulted him, mistreated him, gathered filth at his door and threw camel entrails at him,” while others “taunted him and pelted him with rocks until he bled.” And yet, Muhammad forgave them, Khadeer wrote. Tarapolsi said the extremists are taking things out of context and “they’re being lumped with (her).” She added that when something such as the Paris shooting happens, people view all [ more MUSLIMS page 5 ]