As reported by Seattle PI a 20-year-old man, G.N., has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 20-year old girlfriend, A.L., and is being held in King County Jail on a $2 million bail.
The prosecutors allege that G.N. committed the murder to prevent his girlfriend from leaving him, and their abusive relationship, and get away to college.
On Saturday April 12, at just before noon, 911 operators received a call from G.N. in which he stated that he had strangled A.L.
According to the affidavit, G.N. then texted members of A.L.'s family to also tell them that he had killed her, and that he blamed them for getting her to try to leave him and thereby causing her death.
Adrienne McCoy, the Senior Deputy Prosecutor, said that the couple had a relationship plagued by "manipulation, isolation and psychological destruction."
The probable cause listed in the report details some of G.N.s behavior over the couple's tumultuous 3-year relationship: G.N. allegedly monitored all of the communication between A.L. and her family, found a way to work alongside her at every job she held and did not allow her to be alone. In an effort to manipulate A.L., G.N. also threatened to commit suicide.
A.L.'s father told investigators that when his daughter turned 18 she ran away with G.N. for a four-day period.
But at age 20, it looked as if A.L. was going to make a break for it on her own. Her family was aware of her plans to leave G.N. and enter college to study art. G.N. was also aware of A.L.'s plans, and allegedly grew angry about it.
After telling a 911 operator that he had strangled A.L. to death, he also told a few lies: that he had armed himself with a Glock handgun and set up a booby trap made up of propane in their apartment.
A.L.'s grandfather received a text from G.N., that came in minutes after the 911 call, that read, "If you are getting this you are responsible for (A.L.'s) death, you turned her against me, you abused her heart by offering her to go to college."
Officers located G.N. outside of the couple's apartment and ordered him to surrender. Instead, G.N. ducked into the apartment. Officers, presuming that there may be an explosion at any moment, discharged their weapons into the windows to allow for ventilation. The action caused G.N. to give up, exit the apartment, and surrender.
A.L. was located in the apartment, face down on a bed and already dead.
At the Renton Police Department G.N. allegedly said that it wasn't him that had killed A.L., it was his alternate personality he referred to as "Frost" that had done it.
Other family members, including A.L.'s father and younger sister, also received texts similar to the one G.N. sent A.L.'s grandfather. Some of those messages, according to detectives, read "She's dead", "I have the last laugh" and "You did this."
During the autopsy fingernail abrasions were found on A.L.'s neck, internal bruising on her neck muscles and hemorrhaging on her face – all indicative of a minimum of three minutes of strangulation before she died.
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