Police searching for man suspected of shooting wife and her daughter in Airway Heights
Jul. 27—A woman and her daughter were shot early Tuesday at a home in Airway Heights.
Police have described the incident as domestic violence and are searching for the suspect, the adult victim's husband, Zion J. Carter, 38, said Airway Heights Police Sgt. Jake Keith. The victims suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were transported to a local hospital where they were in surgery Tuesday morning.
The shooting occurred about 3 a.m. at 1013 S. Aspen Court, less than three blocks from the Airway Heights police station.
Police believe Carter fled the scene in a 2007 Nissan Rogue license plate BQT0555. He had not been found as of 8:30 a.m., Keith said.
Carter is Black, 6-foot-7 and 250 pounds with long hair with dreadlocks, police said.
Police ask anyone who sees Carter to call 911 and not approach him.
Records indicate that Carter was married earlier this year.
Law enforcement issued a shelter-in-place warning for the Airway Heights area about 4:30 a.m. but as of mid-morning had reduced the warning, asking citizens to avoid the area.
Spokane County Sheriff's major crimes detectives and crime scene technicians were expected to be at the scene for much of the day, Keith said.
Keith declined to give additional information on the status of the victims considering the suspect is still at large as of late Tuesday.
This was the second high-profile domestic-violence attack of a mother and child in the Spokane area in the past few months.
In April, Kassie Dewey was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend, Joshua Phillips, police have said. They said Dewey's 5-year-old daughter, Lilly Schmidt, was also stabbed and seriously injured but survived.
