Dozens of people packed a courtroom in Kent wearing green, many of them in shirts printed with: “Live like Nick.”
They were there to remember Nick Valison and witness the sentencing of his killer.
Ravensdale father killed in September
Valison, a 53-year-old father of two, was walking his dog in his rural Ravensdale neighborhood on the morning of September 21, 2023, when his wife called him to tell him she thought a group of people might be illegally dumping trash.
According to witnesses who spoke to police, trash had been an increasing problem in the woods nearby. They said Valison alerted neighbors and went to check it out…