MEDICAL LAKE GIRL KILLED IN ATTACK< MOTHER ALSO STABBED, WOUNDED A Medical Lake third-grader was stabbed to death and her mother seriously injured by someone who attacked them in their driveway Sunday evening, authorities said.Police Chief Jim Sjothun told Medical Lake community leaders Monday that the attack wasn't random, but homicide detectives said they had not identified a suspect in the case.Jessica Curry, 8, died outside the duplex where she lived with her mother at 1008 E. Fellows Ave., sheriff's spokesman Dave Reagan said.Her
SON BELIEVES MOM KILLED GIRL IN PARANOID STATE 20-YEAR-OLD SAYS WOMAN HAD HISTORY OF DRUG USE AND MENTAL PROBLEMS The Medical Lake woman suspected of stabbing her 8-year-old daughter to death has a history of paranoia and drug use, her son said Wednesday.Sharon Curry was convinced that someone was out to get her, Shayne Curry said in a telephone interview from Western Washington, where he lived with his mother up until a year ago.``She used to have me crawling around in the attic looking for people because she heard voices up there,'' he said. ``She was convinced her phone was bugged and
AFTERMATH MEDICAL LAKE COMMUNITY BEGINS HEALING IN WAKE OF GIRL'S DEATH IN/AROUND: MEDICAL LAKE In the weeks after a horrific killing in their small town, Medical Lake community leaders are looking for ways to heal.In an apparent murder-suicide attempt Sept. 26, Sharon Curry stabbed her daughter, 8-year-old Jessica Lynne, to death, then stabbed herself, Spokane County sheriff's deputies said. She survived the self-inflicted injuries, however, and confessed last week, deputies said.``The community is rallying to try to honor the memory of Jessica,'' said associate
MOM PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN GIRL'S DEATH< WOMAN ACCUSED OF STABBING DAUGHTER WITH KITCHEN KNIFE A Medical Lake woman charged with the stabbing death of her 8-year-old daughter pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.Sharon Curry, 41, was arraigned by Spokane County prosecutors on first-degree murder charges more than two months after the death of her daughter, Jessica.Curry was arrested after sheriff's deputies found Jessica dead from stab wounds in the driveway of her home on Sept. 26. Curry's medical problems have forced prosecutors to cancel her arraignment at least
WOMAN'S MURDER TRIAL DELAYED BY EVALUATION The murder trial of a woman accused of stabbing her 8-year-old daughter to death last September has been postponed.Sharon L. Curry, 41, is undergoing a psychological evaluation to determine if she is competent to stand trial for the death of Jessica Curry in Medical Lake.Curry pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in December. She was arrested after sheriff's deputies found the girl dead from stab wounds in the driveway of her home.Sharon Curry's medical problems have
MOTHER ARRESTED IN STABBING< DETECTIVES SUSPECT SHE KILLED CHILD, TRIED TO KILL HERSELF A Medical Lake woman was arrested Tuesday in the stabbing death of her 8-year-old daughter.Sheriff's detectives believe Sharon Curry, 41, killed her daughter, Jessica, with a kitchen knife Sunday before using the same weapon in a suicide attempt.``It appears to be a murder-suicide, with the suicide gone awry,'' said deputy Dave Reagan, sheriff's spokesman.Curry was found bloody but alive in her front yard about 9 p.m. Sunday after a neighbor called police to say
MOTHER CONFESSES TO STABBING DAUGHTER MEDICAL LAKE WOMAN TOLD NURSE ABOUT CRIME, COURT RECORDS FILED FRIDAY SHOW A Medical Lake woman confessed to killing her 8-year-old daughter, according to court records filed Friday.Sharon Curry told detectives she fatally stabbed her daughter, Jessica, on Sunday as the girl sat on her lap in the family car, investigators wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.Curry admitted she tried to kill herself with the same kitchen knife, investigators said.``Sharon said she sat with her legs crossed under her in the front passenger seat of the car facing the back
HEALTH PROBLEM AGAIN DELAYS ARRAIGNMENT For the second time in two weeks, a medical emergency canceled the arraignment of a Medical Lake woman accused of killing her 8-year-old daughter.Sharon Curry, 41, was due to be charged Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court with the second-degree murder of her daughter, Jessica.An hour before the arraignment, Spokane County sheriff's deputies transported Curry to a Spokane hospital. She was treated for symptoms of high blood pressure and fever, according to Spokane County
MOM PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN GIRL'S DEATH< WOMAN ACCUSED OF STABBING DAUGHTER WITH KITCHEN KNIFE A Medical Lake woman charged with the stabbing death of her 8-year-old daughter pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.Sharon Curry, 41, was arraigned by Spokane County prosecutors on first-degree murder charges more than two months after the death of her daughter, Jessica.Curry was arrested after sheriff's deputies found Jessica dead from stab wounds in the driveway of her home on Sept. 26. Curry's medical problems have forced prosecutors to cancel her arraignment at least