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Community seeks healing Pretending the shootings never happened wasn’t an option for Tulalips
Court papers say an accomplished Lynnwood musician was slain by the man who responded to his ad for a romantic agreement. By Rikki King Herald Writer
community, they would need to revamp the tribes’ own internal mental health care services. But how to do it? “We didn’t know what that looked like, we had no idea,” Napeahi said. There were many offers to help, some well-meaning and some from “weirdos,” Napeahi said. There were visits from families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims. One member of the Red Lake Nation, a Minnesota tribe that was wracked by a high school shooting in 2005, came to visit as well, if only to issue a warning.
EVERETT — A Lynnwood man who was found slain last month met his accused murderer through Craigslist, court papers show. Christopher Davis, 32, had posted ads on the classifieds website seeking a romantic housekeeping arrangement. Prosecutors allege that a man who answered the ads, Christopher Garcia Gonzalez, 23, killed Davis and stole his car. Garcia-Gonzalez was charged Friday with seconddegree murder and car theft. He was arrested last week and remains jailed in California. He is expected to be returned to Washington to face the murder charge. His bail was earlier set at $1 million. Police believe the killing happened Sept. 14. Davis’ body was found Sept. 20, after a friend reported him missing. Davis, an accomplished musician, had not shown up for the piano lessons he usually taught. Officers found Davis’ body in his home, covered with a blanket. The medical examiner never made public Davis’ cause of death, but the charges say detectives believe he was strangled. Davis’ Honda Civic was missing and police listed it as stolen in a national database.
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Nile Jackson, 10 (center), mirrors another dancer as she and other kids participate in a music therapy session led by Snohomish County Music Project staff at the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club on Friday in Tulalip Bay. The weekly sessions help kids develop a variety of positive social behaviors.
By Chris Winters Herald Writer
TULALIP — A dozen eager fourth-graders gathered in a circle in the teen room at the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club, preparing to sing. The song, led by Danielle Valdes, was simple, and the kids knew the drill. They sang “We’re going to do a little dance that you don’t know.” Then Valdes turned to Mahayla Williams, who began to improvise a little shimmy. “Do, do the Mahayla!” the kids sang, imitating Mahayla’s dance. What appeared to be a simple singalong was actually a
program in music therapy, run by the Snohomish County Music Project, a local nonprofit, and paid for by the Tulalip Tribes. It’s also one of several initiatives the tribes have undertaken in the past year to enhance the mental well-being of its members. It all falls under the category of “trauma-informed care,” a theory and practice that allows communities that have been exposed to extreme trauma to find a way to recover and heal, and which often extends beyond the initial triggering incident. On Oct. 24, 2014, the 15-yearold son of a prominent tribal family shot five of his friends in a
Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria before taking his own life. Four of his teenage victims died. The shootings tore a rift in the Tulalip community that leaders have tried since then to mend. “There was a real conversation about not putting our head in the sand and pretending this didn’t happen,” said Misty Napeahi, the general manager for the Tulalip Tribes. The tribal leadership realized that, even as they worked with the city of Marysville and the Marysville School District on a joint recovery program that encompassed the larger
Testimony begins in delivery driver’s stabbing Herald Writer
EVERETT — Did Christopher Cowan cut open a pizza delivery driver’s stomach after being surprised during a car prowl, or was he wrongly arrested simply because he had the bad luck to
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buy some mints at a convenience store a few minutes later? A Snohomish County jury on Tuesday began hearing testimony about a bloody encounter Jan. 17 in a car behind a Domino’s Pizza restaurant in Edmonds. The victim, 40, confronted a man he caught rummaging
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through his car. In the struggle that followed, he repeatedly was cut and stabbed. One wound was so deep the victim’s intestines were exposed. Cowan, 35 and homeless, was arrested a few days later and charged with attempted firstdegree murder.
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Deputy prosecutor Craig Matheson said the case was built because of an “intersection of good police work and dumb luck.” The victim told Edmonds police his attacker was wearing a backpack and dark clothing. A black baseball cap was left on the ground. A police dog followed the
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attacker’s trail from the restaurant and led officers to a witness who described a man running through his apartment complex just minutes after the attack. The running man said somebody had tried to rob him of his marijuana. See STABBING, Page A2
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