PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — A case of domestic violence turned deadly Saturday outside Eatonville when a 63-year-old man stabbed his brother-in-law to death, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department reported.
The stabbing occurred about 1 p.m. at a home in the 38100 block of 105th Avenue Court East, not far from Ohop Lake.
Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said the incident began when the brother-in-law, 61, attacked his 56-year-old sister with a board and other objects, beating her so severely she was taken to Madigan Army Medical Center for treatment.
The motive for that attack was not disclosed.
The man had been staying in a fifth-wheel trailer parked in the woman’s driveway, Troyer said.
The beating victim’s husband then confronted his brother-in-law and fatally stabbed him, Troyer said.
Detectives arrested the older man and booked him into the Pierce County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder, but any charging decision would be up to prosecutors, Troyer said.
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