An 88-year-old great-great-grandmother was shot and killed while she was sleeping upstairs inside her home in Washington state Wednesday morning.The family of M
King County Sheriff’s Office deputies respond to a shooting on the 1000 block of South 130th Place around midnight on Aug. 28, 2024. Family members told KOMO News 88-year-old María Teresa Contreras Herrera was shot and killed while she was sleeping inside her home. The family of María Teresa Contreras Herrera, whom they called "Gramita," said the 88-year-old was one of 14 people sleeping inside when bullets pierced through the home shortly after midnight.
“She was brutally taken from us in a place where she should have been the safest, our home. A place in where she helped raise each and every one of us, a place filled with countless memories filled with so much love. She, like 13 other living residents, including two children and a pregnant woman was sleeping when the massacre begun. This place where we used to call home has now been marked with evilness and cruelty.
Deputies and medics also attempted life-saving measures, “but unfortunately, the female did not survive,” the sheriff's office said.
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