Man accused of killing girlfriend no stranger to cops

A man served with an anti-harassment order early Saturday morning is suspected of later killing the very woman he had been tormenting, then attempting to kill himself.

Federal Way police arrived at a residence in the 2000 block of Southwest 353rd Place around 11:30 a.m. to find the suspect trying to cut his wrists, spokeswoman Cathy Schrock said.

"We made entry, found the woman, and got her immediate attention, and it was too late," she said.

Fire medics declared the 67-year-old woman dead at the scene. She had suffered multiple stab wounds, Schrock said.

Officers took a knife from the suspect then took him, suffering from what are believed to be self-inflicted stab wounds, to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition.

Police already knew the couple.

They had been called once in 2006 and again earlier this year after loud verbal disputes broke out between them, Schrock said.

Then, on Saturday morning, at 8:13 a.m., officers went to the home and served the 68-year-old man with an anti-harassment order, she said.

The home belonged to the woman, Schrock said, and she was home along with the suspect. The order called for the man to leave the residence and he did.

"He was in compliance," the spokeswoman said.

Police have since learned that the man later met with a friend and made ominous comments, such as "Today, it's all going to end,'" Schrock said.

The suspect's friend told his wife and it was she who called police at 11:26 a.m., concerned about the comments the suspect had made and worried for the safety of the suspect's girlfriend.

So officers were dispatched to the residence to check on the welfare of the woman there, Schrock said.

Because the anti-harassment order had been served just that morning, concern was heightened, she said, and a lieutenant went with patrol officers on that second call.

When officers arrived they immediately surrounded the home and from outside could see the suspect trying to cut himself with a knife, Schrock said.

That's when they burst in and stopped him in his attempted suicide.

Saturday, detectives were still investigating the circumstances surrounding the woman's death, Schrock said. Investigators were waiting for a search warrant Saturday evening before examining the home more closely for evidence.

Authorities did not release the identity of the man nor the woman.

Saturday's murder is the second domestic violence homicide locally in two weeks.

On April 19, Debra Lynn Bonilla, 38, of Seattle, was stabbed to death with a barbecue fork, allegedly by her husband, Juan Carlos Bonilla.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in King County Superior Court on charges of second-degree murder with the aggravating factors that it was an act of domestic violence and it was committed in front of their two young children.