December 24, 2019
85-year-old woman charged with murder, assault in double shooting at Federal Way home
by KOMO News Staff
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - An 85-year-old woman has been charged with first degree murder and assault in the double shooting of her roommates earlier this month.
Beverly Jenne is now being held on $1 million bail and will be booked into jail when she is released form a Tacoma hospital, prosecutors said.
Police report that dispatchers received a 911 call from a woman in her 30s around 1 a.m. on Dec. 19 saying she had been shot in her home in the 2000 block of SW 306th Lane.
Officers arrived on scene to find two women in their 30s shot -- one was dead. The other victim, her sister, was rushed to Harborview Medical Center in critical, but stable, condition. She survived.
The surviving victim named an 85-year-old woman who also lived with them as the suspect. Police eventually found that woman as she was trying to strangle herself with an electric cord. She was taken to a local hospital.
Investigators have determined the suspect had owned the home but it had gone into foreclosure. Another person bought the home but allowed the two roommates to lease-to-own the home while it was being renovated and allowed Jenne to stay there until she could find somewhere else to live.
But after the attack, investigators found a note inside a gun holster in Jenne's car that said that the murder victim "was not a nice person. She drove me to this," according to court documents. She went on to detail other conflicts and even her requested cemetery plot, finally noting that officers would find her will under the front seat, prosecutors said. The note was signed and dated about 2 hours before the 911 call.
In requesting $1 million bail, prosecutors told the judge "although the defendant has no known criminal history, her actions in this case demonstrate she is a significant threat to the community safety if released."
Jenne's next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 6.
http://komonews.com/news/local/85-year-old-woman-charged-with-murder-assault-in-double-shooting-at-federal-way-home
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