Mercer Island Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a home on Wembley Lane.<\/p>\n
Police say officers were called to the home around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday for a wellness check and observed a body inside.<\/p>\n
Commander Jeff Magnan with the Mercer Island Police Department told KOMO News the elderly woman who owns the home and her son were found dead inside. The woman is believed to be around 70, and the man is believed to be in his mid-40s.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth were found with obvious gunshot wounds, and at this point we\u2019re still under investigation as to motive,” Magnan said. <\/p>\n
Police believe the deaths happened sometime within the last 24 hours, possibly the night before or sometime earlier Tuesday morning. Investigators do not believe there is any other suspect involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not looking for anyone; we believe both individuals are inside. We\u2019re investigating this as a potential homicide-suicide,\u201d Magnan said. \u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate, obviously this hits our community very hard, but that\u2019s our investigation at this point. We are very open-minded, we\u2019re looking at all the evidence that\u2019s potentially there, but at this point, we\u2019re using that as our baseline.\u201d<\/p>\n
The gun believed to be used in the incident was recovered inside the crime scene. Police are working with the King County Prosecutor’s Office to secure search warrants, and the Washington State Patrol crime lab will help process the crime scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not unusual; we do have events that occur like this,\u201d Magnan told KOMO News. \u201cThis time of year, unfortunately, domestic violence tends to go up. I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s what this case is; we\u2019re still investigating that, but we do see a rise in domestic incidents that occur during the holiday time.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is a developing story, and more information will be added as it becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercer Island Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a home on Wembley Lane. Police say officers were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-378803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}