Crime & Safety
COURT PAPERS: Dean Holmes Says He Contemplated Suicide Before He Allegedly Killed Wife, Daughter
The 39-year-old was charged with first-degree aggravated murder in Pierce County Superior Court on Thursday.
Dean Holmes, 39, had contemplated killing himself before allegedly shooting his wife and later his 11-year-old daughter.
Those were some of the details included in papers filed today in Pierce County Superior Court, where the Spanaway man was charged with first-degree aggravated murder.
(Click on the media gallery to view the declaration for determination of probable cause filed today in Pierce County Superior Court)
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