TUKWILA, Wash. — A Tukwila man is under arrest after allegedly telling his sister he may kill himself and his girlfriend.
The sister called police, and now the man is charged with felony harassment.
Ansari Hosanh, 20, posted online how angry he was with the mother of two of his three young children because of child support payments.
According to court documents, the two fought just days ago, then Hosanh told his sister, Rophi Sanh, he might kill himself and the girlfriend too.
"He told me that he wanted to kill her," Rophi Sanh told KIRO 7 reporter Amy Clancy.
So Sanh became very worried on Monday morning, when Hosanh picked up his girlfriend in front of the family's Tukwila home and drove away.
"I don't think she even knows that he wanted to kill her," Sanh said. "She said that all he talked about was committing suicide."
Sanh had her boyfriend call the Tukwila Police Department, and Hosanh was arrested at Snoqualmie Pass two hours later.
In the car, police say, were his girlfriend and multiple knives.
"There was good reason to be concerned," Tukwila police spokesman Mike Murphy said. "He had made some threats to harm her and that he was armed with knives."
According to court documents, Hosanh admitted to police that he told his sister, "I could do it while driving, and I could put a knife in (her) heart."
But then told investigators "I could not really do this, I was just talking things out with my sister."
Something else alarmed police: Hosanh left a will and didn't leave anything to the girlfriend they said he planned to kill.
He left it all to his other girlfriend.
Hosanh's arraignment, where he's expected to enter a plea, is later this month.
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