Prosecutors are no longer seeking first-degree murder against Tony Reed, a man who led authorities to the gravesite of a missing couple in the Arlington-Oso area.
Documents filed changed the charges against Reed to first-degree rendering criminal assistance. The documents say that Tony Reed was not there at the time of the murder, but he allegedly help his brother in burying the bodies.
The event comes the same day that detectives announced that they arrested his elderly parents.
The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday it arrested 81-year-old Clyde Reed and 77-year-old Faye Reed in Ellensburg for investigation of rendering criminal assistance.
Investigators said that they admitted providing the vehicle in which their sons, John and Tony Reed, fled the state and giving them money. John Reed remains at large.
Tony Reed turned himself in at the U.S.-Mexico border last month and led authorities to the grave of 45-year-old Patrick Shunn and his wife, 46-year-old Monique Patenaude.
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The two were former neighbors of John Reed in Oso, a rural community northeast of Seattle that was devastated in a 2014 landslide.