BOY "MASSACRES FAMILY" WHILE SISTER, 11, PLAYS DEAD, CALLED "POLITE"
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🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The King County, Washington, 911 call center receives a call an area known for multi-million dollar homes in the Fall City area at 4:55 am. A 15-year-old boy says he is hiding in a bathroom on the main floor of the house because his 13-year-old brother, Benjamin, just shot is family and then "took himself out."
Another call comes in to the 911 center at 5:02 am. Bradley Dennis lives down the street from the Humiston residence and says the 11-year-old sister of Andrew Humiston arrived at his home ringing the doorbell over and over until they answered the door. The girl says her family has been shot and are all dead. Bradely Dennis says the girl appears injured by a possible gunshot wound and she is bleeding from her neck and hand.
The 11-year-old girl tells 911 dispatch she survived the attack by pretending to be dead when the gunman came into her room. As soon as the gunman left, the girl says she climbed out a "fire window" and ran into the middle of the street. When she looks into a window at the front of their home she saw the gunman who shot her.
When an operator asks who that was, the girl tells 911 that her brother is the one who killed everyone--and she is terrified he will come to the neighbors house to kill her.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A fall city boy massacres his family while his little |
| 0:10.1 | sister just 11 plays dead in order to save her own life. Now his defense |
| 0:17.4 | attorneys are calling the boy polite telling the judge he loves camping and fishing. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:28.0 | Fall City is an idyllic small town just outside of Seattle, Washington, nestled between rivers and mountains, |
| 0:37.4 | the perfect place for a seemingly perfect family, like the Hummestons until one October morning when multiple |
| 0:45.8 | gunshots are heard from the Hummestan family home. |
| 0:49.6 | The 11-year-old sister says she shares a room with her sister Catherine and they were awakened by the sound of gunshots. |
| 0:55.7 | Looking out the bedroom door to the hallway, she could see her nine year old brother Joshua with blood in his mouth and her dad, with blood on his head lying in the hallway |
| 1:04.6 | seven-year-old Catherine gets out of bed and enters the hallway from their bedroom and |
| 1:08.6 | another shot rings out Catherine falls to the floor this This 11 year old girl reports that she played dead, played dead in order to save her own life. |
| 1:21.7 | Imagine what this young girl has survived. The only surviving |
| 1:27.9 | member of the family, she then manages somehow to escape through a window listen. |
| 1:35.0 | The 11 year old girl with two gunshot wounds tells 911 dispatch she survived the attack by holding her breath and pretending to be dead when the gunman came into her room to check on her. |
| 1:45.0 | As soon as the gunman left, the girl says she climbed out of a fire window, ran into the middle of the street, |
| 1:50.0 | and when she looked into the window of the front of their home, she saw the gunman who shot her. |
| 1:55.0 | It's not the first time that we have heard of little children climbing through windows to save their own life. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm sure you all recall the little boy who climbs through |
| 2:07.2 | a window his hands shackled, starved at the hands of his own mother Ruby Frankie, the online megastar who gives out parenting advice. |
| 2:19.2 | Her children found abused and starving, shackled, mistreated, forced to work outside in deadly heat barefoot. |
| 2:30.0 | He manages to escape through a window, run to a neighbor to save his life and his little sister's life. |
| 2:36.6 | And then there is of course the House of Horrors, the Turpin family Horror, where all of the children were beaten and starved systematically, |
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