A police vehicle and crime scene tape cordon off the Cedar River Terrace Apartments in Renton, Washington. (KING).
A Washington man found himself incarcerated following the tragic events that led to the death of his mother and subsequent stabbing of a police officer. This was confirmed by law enforcement officials in the Evergreen State.
Christopher Mott, 42, faces several serious charges including first-degree murder, assault, and burglary, after allegedly fatally stabbing his 79-year-old mother, Colleen Marie McCue. The Renton Police Department has detailed these charges facing Mott.
The series of grim events began to unfold just before midnight on August 3 at the Cedar River Terrace Apartments on Burnett Avenue South in Renton, which is a substantial suburb adjacent to Seattle, as reported by the police.
Initially, officers were dispatched to the scene following reports of a vehicle crash into a building accompanied by what sounded like gunfire, according to a statement of probable cause shared by Seattle’s 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.
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