Seattle stabbing suspect Ok’Shawn Konscience Jimerson launched by Decide Michelle Gehlsen 27 hours after deadly stabbing

A choose in Washington state launched a teen in the future after his arrest for allegedly stabbing a 65-year-old veteran to loss of life at a house.

On Friday, the Renton Police Division mentioned 19-year-old Ok’Shawn Konscience Jimerson referred to as 911 simply after 2 p.m. and informed the operator he had stabbed somebody and could be standing “exterior with the knife.”

Jimerson additionally claimed self-defense through the name, police mentioned. 

“The 911 caller mentioned that they’d stabbed the handyman inside the home,” Susan Hassinger of the Renton police informed FOX 13 Seattle.

Witnesses informed police they heard arguing after which noticed Jimerson with a big butcher knife and lined in blood, FOX 13 reported. 

A witness additionally claimed seeing 65-year-old handyman and veteran Michael Grey bleeding out and yelled for Jimerson to name 911. 

When officers arrived on the house, they found Grey with stab wounds to his aspect and again.  

Officers instantly rendered help, however Grey died on the residence, police mentioned.

Officers additionally recovered the knife from a sink stuffed with detergent, courtroom data present. 

Police mentioned Jimerson remained on the scene and was detained. 

When legislation enforcement officers have been requested in the event that they objected to Jimerson’s launch, they marked “sure” on a courtroom kind, stating, “Jimerson, who is nineteen, stabbed a 65-year-old man with a big knife throughout an argument.”

At his first courtroom look, 27 hours after his arrest, Decide Michelle Gehlsen initially set bail at $50,000 regardless of discovering possible trigger for second-degree homicide and the prosecutor asking for $2 million bail.

Police mentioned Jimerson posted bail and has been launched. 

The prosecutor has filed a movement to extend bail, and that listening to is scheduled for Thursday, Renton police informed Fox Information Digital. 

Detectives informed FOX 13 surveillance video reveals Jimerson chasing Grey down from behind and hitting him at the back of the pinnacle with a big picket membership, then putting him two extra occasions within the head after he fell to the bottom. 

The video then reveals Grey getting up and turning to work together with Jimerson, who runs off as each males enter the house out of view of the digicam.

Jimerson not too long ago moved again to Washington from Texas, the place his mother lives, FOX 13 realized. 

Grey had been employed by Jimerson’s grandmother to do upkeep work and had spent a day and a half cleansing the partitions contained in the house earlier than his loss of life, FOX 13 reported. 

Grey lived together with his roommates in a single-story residence throughout the road from the duplex the place he was killed, they usually informed FOX 13 he was a form man who was all the time keen to help.

The roommates additionally revealed Grey was a army veteran. It was not instantly recognized what department of the army Grey served in. 

Fox Information Digital reached out to the Kings County Prosecutor’s Workplace for remark however didn’t instantly get a response.