Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times King County prosecutors say a 41-year-old Shoreline man lured a woman to his apartment Saturday night with the

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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
King County prosecutors say a 41-year-old Shoreline man lured a woman to his apartment Saturday night with the intention of killing her and fatally attacked her with a hatchet, bongo drums and bolt cutters.

Tyrone Wells was charged Wednesday with premeditated first-degree murder, accused of killing Randee Rios, 32, who suffered multiple blunt- and sharp-force injuries to her head early Sunday, charging papers say.

In addition to a deadly-weapon enhancement, the charges allege the aggravating factor that Wells’ conduct manifested deliberate cruelty to Rios, which if proven, could justify a sentence above the standard sentencing range.

Wells called 911 just after 7:20 a.m. Sunday and told a dispatcher that he had killed a woman in his apartment in the 17500 block of Linden Avenue North, according to the charges. He met sheriff’s deputies in the building’s parking lot and was arrested after deputies went inside his apartment and found Rios’ body, with the bloody hatchet and bolt cutters nearby, the charges say. Broken bongo drums were also found in the apartment.

Wells remains jailed in lieu of $5 million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned April 13. Court records do not yet indicate which attorney is representing him.

Senior Deputy Prosecutor Aubony Burns wrote in charging documents that Wells was wanted on three warrants, including one for assault, in three different courts at the time of his arrest.

Court records show Wells was wanted on bench warrants in Lynnwood and Blaine, Whatcom County, for misdemeanor theft and Snohomish County District Court for fourth-degree assault.

He also has three misdemeanor convictions for weapons offenses, according to the charges filed Wednesday. It does not appear Wells has any prior felony convictions.

“The defendant admitted he invited the victim to his home, they watched movies and she fell asleep,” Burns wrote, adding Wells woke up Rios before attacking her. “The defendant’s incredibly brutal actions in this case … make clear he poses a substantial danger to the community.”

The charges don’t provide a motive for Rios’ slaying, but prosecutors say Wells claimed to have been using meth in the days leading up to her killing.

According to the charges, Wells and Rios met in 2017 after Wells moved here from California, and the two had been involved in an intimate relationship. He invited her over around 10 p.m. Saturday and she took a bus from the North Seattle apartment she shared with her mother, the charges say.

Friends of Rios’ mother have launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to support her family.

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Many mornings i sit on my front porch with coffee and a cigarette as a relaxing way to watch the world wake up. This morning i was doing so with the residual taste of the male runner i orally please (usually weekly but sometimes more frequently) still clinging in my throat. An older couple was on ther morning walk today, i see them occasionally. She was the usual casual wave and good morning but he did not even glance my direction. She called him out on it and told him to at least say good morning, and they were on their way again. As they walked away he turned and looked back at me with an uncertain ezpression on hia face I hope she did not give him grief later, because i know why he was acting awkwardly. About six weeks ago he made his first visit to my back yard shed to take his own pleasure in my mouth. It was actually emotional for him because he had not gotten any relief in a very long time. I told him he was welcome any time. But like many older married men he was truly suffering the guilt and shame of taking his pleasure in a man’s mouth and for being unfaithful to his wife. But naturally after getting the incredible pleasure i gave him as i reverently worshipped his hard hungry male flesh…he told me during and after that he had no idea such pleasure existed…his guilt and remorse and shame got to him and after a couole of weeks i assumed he would never return. But sure enough, i eventually saw him on a morning solo walk and he came up to me unable to even speak or ask, and i simply had him follow me to my back yard shed and without speaking i gave him what he needed again. And of course afterwards despite his enjoyment in the moment, he was in tears again and said he could never do this again. But a week later, he was back for more. Then again a few days after that This is where we are at as i saw him on his walk with his wife this morning. I have sincere empathy for his inner crisis, and he kmows if he comes back for more he will get it time and again. I know it sounds arrogant but i know eventually he will come back again and again. Not because i am conceited but because i simply know men and the type of man that seeks what i give them on my knees. He will come back because they all do eventually this is simply how some men get what they need and i enjoy giving it to them for a host of reasons…..from the diary of a closet neighborhood cocksucker

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i want to end myself and i have suicidal thoughts thinking how should i die (i often think about hanging) and i imagine myself when i am doing the deed. i have fallen quite low and it is hard to stand up again. i have been having family issues (mainly with my dad) aside from my own personal problems. even if i vent this to someone, i know that their words are not enough. it is unfortunate for me that i got the miserable version of life haha… maybe if i was more pleasant, people would’ve treated me differently and my father wouldn’t even verbally abuse me. i have been like this for months now. some days i feel better but once triggered, everything comes back and i am miserable again. i really don’t want this life and the urge to end it is very strong. i have fallen out of my faith in God so to end this all, i think i should end the root of everything which is me because i realized that i might be the problem. that is all.