‘Did not want … to disturb them’: Man strangled his parents to death with a belt before being seen by family member outside the home covered in cuts and bruises, police say

A Washington man is accused of strangling his parents to death with a belt in their home and then — upon being spotted by a family member — expressing his desire not to “disturb them.”

Mick Carmichael, 35, is being held in the King County jail on two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of 69-year-old Grace Carmichael and 68-year-old Gregory Carmichael, court records show. He was arrested on Thursday evening.

Investigators believe the three family members were at their home on the 33700 block of 27th Place Southwest in Federal Way, sometime between Wednesday and Thursday when a fight broke out. The city is located just south of Seattle…

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