Eatonville teen accused of 'kill list' allowed to come home
EATONVILLE, Wash. -- The Eatonville teenager who allegedly posted a list of 10 names of people he wanted to kill is being allowed to go back home.
The 13-year-old has been in juvenile detention since he was arrested last week after the list and a photo of him posing with guns was discovered on Facebook -- allegedly found by another middle school student.
But the boy's defense attorney says it's all being blown out of proportion.
"He is not a danger to the community," said attorney Phil Thorton. "The state and the probation department does not allege that he would be a danger to the state."
The family asked the juvenile court judge to allow the boy to come home. The family says guns belong to his grandfather and they're now locked in a safe 25 miles away.
Court Commissioner Wendy Zicht agreed, but with serious restrictions -- he's to be on house arrest, monitored by satellite.
"What you'll have is a GPS that will be following you," Zicht told the teen in juvenile court Friday. "If you leave the house it will know where you're at."
And the family members and friends who've agreed to supervise him are all ordered to sign that they understand their responsibility under penalty of perjury, which the boy's attorney felt went above and beyond.
"I think these people are being treated differently," Thorton argued to the judge. "I think you're violating their due process rights as well as their equal protection rights."
But Zicht was firm, with the prosecutor still believing the boy is a threat.
"We're just worried about potential danger to the community," said Deputy Prosecutor Elizabeth Vincent. "And based on the seriousness of the alleged offenses."
And some in the community still feel uneasy, even with the restrictions.
"He's a threat to the community," said Eatonville Middle School parent Amy Accarino. "I don't feel comfortable with him coming home at all. I'm afraid for my son to go to school."
But another family whose son was on the kill list said they felt OK about the teen coming home with those tight restrictions.
The teen will make another court appearance next week.
The 13-year-old has been in juvenile detention since he was arrested last week after the list and a photo of him posing with guns was discovered on Facebook -- allegedly found by another middle school student.
But the boy's defense attorney says it's all being blown out of proportion.
"He is not a danger to the community," said attorney Phil Thorton. "The state and the probation department does not allege that he would be a danger to the state."
The family asked the juvenile court judge to allow the boy to come home. The family says guns belong to his grandfather and they're now locked in a safe 25 miles away.
Court Commissioner Wendy Zicht agreed, but with serious restrictions -- he's to be on house arrest, monitored by satellite.
"What you'll have is a GPS that will be following you," Zicht told the teen in juvenile court Friday. "If you leave the house it will know where you're at."
And the family members and friends who've agreed to supervise him are all ordered to sign that they understand their responsibility under penalty of perjury, which the boy's attorney felt went above and beyond.
"I think these people are being treated differently," Thorton argued to the judge. "I think you're violating their due process rights as well as their equal protection rights."
But Zicht was firm, with the prosecutor still believing the boy is a threat.
"We're just worried about potential danger to the community," said Deputy Prosecutor Elizabeth Vincent. "And based on the seriousness of the alleged offenses."
And some in the community still feel uneasy, even with the restrictions.
"He's a threat to the community," said Eatonville Middle School parent Amy Accarino. "I don't feel comfortable with him coming home at all. I'm afraid for my son to go to school."
But another family whose son was on the kill list said they felt OK about the teen coming home with those tight restrictions.
The teen will make another court appearance next week.
You would have to personally know the kid to know if this was a serious threat or nothing at all.
So many people want to sit on their hands and wait until something actually happens before doing something about it. I guess it's not hitting close enough to home.
@Salix It doesn't hit close enough to home until it happens at their kids school, and their kids are on the list. It may sound like they are overreacting, but given all of the unstable kids and adults that have gone on shooting sprees over the last couple of years I think their philosophy of "better safe than sorry" is a good call. If they had shrugged this off and been lenient, and then this kid actually harmed someone, or worse, then everyone would be complaining that not enough was done. Even if this kid is found guilty he probably wont be monitered for long. I really hope he just made a stupid choice to write this list and was trying to be cool and tough by making his verbal threats. My son goes to this school and it makes me really nervous not knowing what this kids mental state is. Is all this publicity and being expelled going to really send him over the edge?Â
How did he get the gun, and why isn't that person being charged or even identified as a suspect? IS this how they do things in Eatonville? The kid is 13. Guns don't grow on trees. Charge the stupid grandfather with a crime and send the proper message.Â
@lakeview "How did he get the gun"
The photo is of him on a hunting trip with family. The original story said as much. The story has been changed for propaganda purposes just for alarmists like you.
This is dumb. he is being treated just as bad as a sex offender and he didn't even really commit a crime. I mean many people write crap in a journal or something. It doesn't mean they are going to act on it. Over all this kid is not going to harm anyone and people are just milking the money and resources out of the government.
Hopefully this whole situation scared the kid enough that he will NEVER think of doing anything like that again.
Lets just say if I was one of his classmates at recess playing dodgeball he would be on my team...
now the kid will be damaged because he'll be stigmatized as a crazed killer, poor fella. (sarcasm).
"The family says guns belong to his grandfather and they're now locked in a safe 25 miles away"
Do you mean.......... Â "The Family said that the guns belonged to his Grandfather and they're now securely lock away in a safe 25 miles away". ????? Â Come on komo !
The parents need to be held accountable for this. Those guns should have never been accessible to that kid! Do his parents not read the news????? Do they not know what just happened  in Colorado ????  I say Charge the parents and fine them heavily for allowing this kid access to weapons that he never should have had access to in the first place.Â
@Seahawker KOMO has more than its share of typos and careless mistakes, but the Random capital Letters you Added to words in the middle of the sentences are just bizarre, annoying and Distracting.Â
"The family says guns belong to his grandfather and they're now locked in a safe 25 miles away"
Do you mean.......... Â "The Family said that the guns belonged to his Grandfather and they're now securely lock away in a safe 25 miles away". ????? Â Come on KOMO!
The parents need to be held accountable for this. Those guns should have never been accessible to that kid! Do his parents not read the news????? Do they not know what just happened  in Colorado ????  I say Charge the parents and fine them heavily for allowing this kid access to weapons that he never should have had access to in the first place.Â
@SeahawkerKOMO has more than its share of typos and careless mistakes, but the Random capital Letters you Added to words in the middle of the sentences are just bizarre, annoying and Distracting.Â
Well as far as whether or not it's the right call, I'll let the court decide that. But I really hope they've thought this through thoroughly. That whole idea of this list and whatever his state of mind was is just too much to really ignore!
If they treat this one kid this way I expect the courts to treat "every" kid this way. Locker searches, informants, monitored paper products, keyword software installed on their computers and phones.Â
I'm more afraid of Amy Accarino than the kid, although I think we might have created a problem where none existed before.
The kid's 13 for goodness sake. He didn't shoot anyone did he? He made a grandstand play, for whatever reason (which is the real issue everyone needs to deal with), he spent a week knowing what's it like to be in captivity, and now he's under house arrest to think about what he's done to bring this down on himself.
The people on the so-called "hit list" probably know him better than anyone, including the parents speaking out here, why doesn't anyone ask them what they think?
""He's a threat to the community," said Eatonville Middle School parent Amy Accarino. "I don't feel comfortable with him coming home at all. I'm afraid for my son to go to school."
I tell you what Amy, I'm afraid of people like you that keep their shoulder to the grindstone to follow the glorious leader.
Man, this is the absolute result of the progressive agenda to cause division and despair. The paranoia that is being played out here is exactly what a fascist government would use to keep the masses under a communistic society.Â
I'm not trying to start a political battle here, I just call `em as I see `em.
@komoispropaganda what are you talking about? its a mom concerned that a kid that had a "kill list" is back at in town....is that so unbelievable?
Did nothing. Â Innocent until proven guilty. Â Innocent until doing something guilty.Â
It's in his heart.
muchado about nothing. absolutely NO NEED to involve police and courts and media... blown WAAAY out of proportion. (and SO WHAT the kid has pictures of himself with a gun while camping.. its EATONVILLE .. aka BFE.. most people have guns out there.. and good on em for it)Â
Enjoy your new life kid, you messed up and now you get to pay the price.
Everybody around him knows of his ill intents so the cat's out of the bag on this guy. The law has his number now so he probably won't try anything. He'll be just fine!
The government and the sheep that follow just can't get enough of the media driven propaganda machine that has whipped this country into a divided frenzy. This should have been handled at the principal's office. Paranoia is such an effective progressive propaganda tool.
wouldn't it be prudent to take a look at the kid's life and to find out WHY he's making a "kill list" ??? instead of just throwing the book at them like we seem to do in this country, things are obviously messed up
@Johanna Green Nicely Nope, we'll just wait a few years or so when the kid finally goes postal and kills a bunch of people.  Then we'll blame guns or video games, etc and make more laws to ban stuff. Â
Meanwhile, we'll all sit on our hands waiting for the next massacre. Â
Personal responsibility, mental health, and family up-bringing are at the very bottom of the list for things the US government cares about. Â I could cite about a thousand reasons why.
I wonder if this kid is on psychotropic drugs, or maybe just wanted to get some media attention.  Â