Man gets 60 years for killing two in Southcenter parking lot

By Associated Press

Summary

The shootings in 2005 occurred in a car a few yards from the Nordstrom store in the shopping mall.

Story Published: Oct 27, 2006 at 7:24 AM PST

Story Updated: Oct 27, 2006 at 7:30 AM PST

Man gets 60 years for killing two in Southcenter parking lot
SEATTLE - A man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for killing two men in the Southcenter parking lot, apparently during a midday heroin transaction.

The sentence was handed down Wednesday to Thomas Osbourne Marshall, 55, of Port Orchard, convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Felix Payan Cruz, 27, and Noe Carrasco Salazar, 17.

The shootings occurred on Sept. 12, 2005, in a car a few yards from the Nordstrom store in the shopping mall. According to investigators Marshall shot the two men in the back of the head while he was in the back seat and they were in the front during what apparently was a heroin deal.

Marshall's girlfriend told investigators he bought $50 worth of drugs from the men because he was short on a pain prescription. After the killing, police wrote, money and drugs were found in the car.

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