Bail for Chan Ok “Paul” Kim, 68, was set at $2 million. He is to be arraigned May 19 at the Regional Justice Center in Kent, the King County Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday.

If Kim is convicted as charged, he faces between 22 and 28 years in prison.

Federal Way police initially went to Baerbel Roznowski’s home in the 2000 block of Southwest 353rd Place shortly after 8:10 a.m. Saturday to serve Kim with a civil anti-harassment order, court documents state.

Roznowski, 66, had requested the order Thursday. (Details concerning the order were unavailable Tuesday.) Kim was served with the order, and the officer left.

Less than three hours later officers returned to check on Roznowski’s welfare after a friend of the couple called and expressed concern, court documents state. The friend told officers she’d received a call from Kim about 10 a.m. He said he was going to kill himself and his girlfriend because of their relationship problems.

An officer arrived at the house at 11:39 a.m. When no one answered the front door, the officer looked through a window and saw a man “poke his head over a half-wall, looking down at him, and then quickly duck away,” court documents state.

Another officer went into the backyard and up onto a deck. Through a window, the officer saw Kim lying on the dining room floor. He was bloody and stabbing himself with a kitchen knife, court documents state.

Officers found Roznowski lying next to him. She’d been stabbed in the chest and stomach area. She died in the house.

Kim was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of his injuries. Police said Tuesday that he was in serious condition and in police custody at the hospital.

Officers later learned that Roznowski had given Kim two hours to move out of the house.

In an e-mail sent at 9:16 a.m., Roznowski asked a friend to come over because she was scared, court documents state. The two friends talked shortly before 10 a.m.

Roznowski told the friend she’d given Kim until 11 a.m. to move out. Kim initially left the house. He went to the bank and gave a friend some personal belongings to give to his son and other family members in South Korea, court documents state.

Investigators suspect Kim returned to the home and killed Roznowski between 10 and 11:30 a.m.

In an interview with investigators, Kim said he wouldn’t have been able to move out of the house in two hours.

Court documents state that Kim and Roznowski “began fighting over it and he ‘lost control’ and ‘lost his temper.’ Kim stated he, ‘went crazy’ and admitted to stabbing Roznowski in the kitchen, with a kitchen knife more than one time.”

Stacey Mulick: 253-597-8268

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