ISSAQUAH, Wash. — Court documents obtained by KIRO 7 show trouble had been brewing for months at the Issaquah home where police said a 28-year-old man took his sister, her 5- and 8-year-old children, and boyfriend hostage over the weekend on Isola Place NW.
The 16-hour SWAT standoff ended with the hostages safely rescued and the home in flames. Investigators recovered remains Monday from the home that are believed to be the barricaded suspect, who sources identified as convicted felon Blake Parivar.
A judge signed a temporary protection last September after the homeowner, Parivar’s sister, wrote that her brother, “Entered my house by breaking doors and windows on 4 diff. occasions. Once he’s in my house, he refuses to leave…”
She described feeling, “bullied, fearful, of what he might do in a rage,” and wrote in the petition for the protection order, “I don’t feel safe in my own home.”
The suspect’s sister also described to the court an August incident where her brother broke a locked door and “had a knife in his hand…and demanded that he has to sleep in my closet, he is using drugs…”
Neighbors said police were familiar with the family.
“They’ve been here before in our house, trying to figure out what’s going on in their house,” said one neighbor in a Sunday interview.
Sources tell KIRO 7 Parivar had a felony warrant for domestic violence assault and unlawful imprisonment in a case involving his sister and that he had shot at her house in the last two weeks.
King County sheriff’s deputies say Parivar was also involved in a crash last year with another driver in Newcastle after speeding away from deputies following a disturbance at a nearby apartment complex. Court documents filed in the case said Parivar had been booked into jail in King County 19 times.
Investigators have not yet said why Parivar took his sister and her family hostage. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office will confirm the identity of the remains removed from the burned home along with the cause of death.
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