Woman living at Purdy mass-stabbing home had filed protection orders against son
A woman who lived at a Key Peninsula home where five people were fatally wounded Tuesday had sought two protection orders against her son, according to Pierce County Superior Court documents.
The 52-year-old woman sought protection orders against her 32-year-old son in 2020 and 2025, records show. Both of them were granted.
In a petition for a protection order filed Dec. 10, 2020, the woman wrote that her son “always keeps control in my house,” describing an incident where he threatened her daughter with a knife after she brought her boyfriend to the house in the 14000 block of 87th Avenue Court Northwest, east of Purdy.
Her son says that “he is a God,” she wrote.
The mother wrote in a petition for an order of protection filed April 4, 2025, that her son had been practicing “witchcraft/occult behavior” and doing rituals inside the home. She also wrote that he damaged her belongings, hurt her cat and refused to get a job.
She described an incident two days earlier when she returned home to find her house smelling strange with the cat’s tree, food and water bowls, as well as inside rugs, moved to the garage, the document said. The cat was missing.
“The smoke detector was going off and my son was acting delusional,” she wrote. “Evidence of occult rituals were present.”
A protection order issued May 2, 2025, stated that the man had a mental health disorder, had pushed his mother in the past and recently told the woman “that her grave has already been dug.”
On Tuesday, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said a 911 call came in at around 8:47 a.m. about a man who entered a home near Purdy in violation of a no-contact order.
After realizing the order had not been served, deputies were making their way to serve the order when witnesses reported a man stabbing people outside the home.
A deputy arrived and shot the suspect, a 32-year-old man. Four people died at the scene, including the suspect, and a fifth person transported to the hospital later died of their injuries.
Authorities have not publicly identified the victims or the suspect.
This story was originally published February 24, 2026 at 6:33 PM.
