A police vehicle and crime scene tape outside of the Cedar River Terrace Apartments in Renton, Wash. (KING).
A Washington man is behind bars after killing his mother and then stabbing a police officer, law enforcement in the Evergreen State says.
Christopher Mott, 42, stands accused of one count each of first-degree murder, assault, and burglary over the fatal stabbing of 79-year-old Colleen Marie McCue, according to the Renton Police Department.
The investigation began just before midnight on Aug. 3, at the Cedar River Terrace Apartments on Burnett Avenue South in Renton — a large inner-ring suburb of Seattle — police said.
At first, officers responded to reports of a vehicle inside a building and the sound of possible gunshots, according to a statement of probable cause obtained by Seattle-based NBC affiliate KING.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found the front doors of the apartment complex shattered, and a parking post rendered into a piece of twisted metal right outside the doors.
As the investigation progressed, an officer saw a man later identified as Mott, who allegedly ran from them, according to the charging document. As the pursuit continued on foot, the defendant allegedly pulled something from his waistband and lunged toward one officer.
The officer, gun drawn, staggered back and fell to the ground as the man ran off, according to the probable cause statement.
A second officer continued the pursuit, police said. Eventually the defendant turned around and slashed at the second officer's face with the knife, according to the charging document. Then, the second officer used a Taser-like device on Mott — who subsequently dropped the knife and then seized up from the electric shock.
As the defendant was being arrested, he allegedly cried out: "Oh my God. So much more to come," according to law enforcement.
There certainly was.
The second officer then told the first officer he could not see out of his right eye, according to body-worn camera footage. It turned out he had been stabbed by Mott, according to the charging document.
Paramedics later noted the injured officer had a laceration on his upper lip, a laceration running across his right cheek toward his ear, as well as a wound on his right eye, police said.
During the arrest, Mott allegedly said "something along the lines of 'I just killed my mom,'" according to the Benton Reporter.
Eventually, other officers arrived. As the defendant was being handcuffed and sat upright, after admitting to killing his mother, he said "it felt great," according to the probable cause statement.
Investigators then returned to the apartment complex, contacted the maintenance manager and obtained surveillance footage showing the defendant causing the damage to the front of the building, police said.
While there, officers also checked the unit where Mott's mother lived. Inside, they found the woman stabbed to death on the floor.
The defendant is being detained in the King County Jail on $5 million bail.