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…

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