An Enumclaw man is charged with first-degree murder after being accused of duct-taping a man’s face — causing him to asphyxiate and die — before ransacking the man’s home.
On June 5, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Huy Huu Nguyen, 56, whose last known address was in Enumclaw, with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and first-degree trafficking in stolen property in connection with the death of Axel Enrique Chirinos-Banegas, 23.
According to court documents, around 10 a.m. March 3, Nguyen and another unidentified man allegedly broke into Chirinos-Banegas’ home in the 1100 block of Edmonds Ave. NE. in Renton, bound him and covered his mouth and one nostril with duct tape, resulting in his death, and then burglarized his home…