"This pain really hurts… It aches," she told us. "My head hurts and sometimes I can't function because I need to know what happened to my son. I know someone out there knows and I'm praying to god I get justice for my son.", Brooks will likely be left waiting even longer.
"We’ve seen a significant upward trend in homicides, particularly the last two years in the state of Washington," explained Steven Strachan, the Executive Director for Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. "It’s doubly concerning because the rest of the nation has begun to level off a little bit, we’re still seeing that number increasing at an alarming rate."
"To walk into that morgue and see my son lay on the table, that was the worst damn day of my life," she said. Bail has been set at $10 million for the man accused of firing randomly into a vehicle in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, killing a pregnant woman inside and injuring her husband. The suspect is now facing murder charges.