second degree murder

TACOMA (AP) — Authorities say a single BB gun shot to the heart killed a homeless man found dead in Tacoma this week. The News Tribune reports that police didn't initially realize the case was a homicide, but an autopsy revealed the cause of death for 32-year-old Dustin Kopp...

MARYSVILLE (AP) — A Snohomish County jury has found a Marysville man guilty of second-degree murder in the strangulation death of a music teacher. The Daily Herald reports jurors deliberated nearly two days in the case against 23-year-old Christopher Garcia Gonzalez before convicting him Monday...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 24-year-old man has been convicted of murder for a fiery crash that killed his girlfriend as they fled from police in a stolen truck last year. The News Tribune reports that a judge Monday found Anthony Hem guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree robbery...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities have charged the wife of a Tacoma shooting suspect with helping him flee to Oregon. The News Tribune reports that 51-year-old Tracey Tamara Norris was charged Friday with first-degree rendering criminal assistance...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Yakima police say surveillance video shows a woman armed with an ax lunged at the man suspected of fatally shooting her before he pulled the trigger. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that police on Tuesday filed court documents seeking a murder charge against the man, who is not in custody. ...

A 45-year-old man was killed in a fight with another man at a home on Cherry avenue in Yakima Monday night.

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old man with second-degree murder, saying his newborn daughter was still alive when he took her into a wooded area near Ocean Shores. Patrick Parnel was charged Wednesday. Court documents say Parnel and his girlfriend, 21-year-old Brittany Taylor, didn't want anyone to know the young woman was about to deliver, so they went to an Ocean