Deaf Seattle woman allegedly killed by son
Local news in Seattle reported on Tuesday that a 45-year-old deaf woman was murdered by her 17-year-old son, who is hearing.
Several deaf people reached out to “The Daily Moth” to identify the woman as Dana Flores.
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KOMO News reported today that the son, Jordan B. Flores, is charged as an adult with first-degree murder and is held on $2 million bail.
KOMO said court documents showed that prior to the alleged killing on Tuesday, the son was staying at a youth group home because he broke his mother’s arm in a previous incident and threatened to kill her in June. The son told a staff member at the group home that he was thinking about stabbing his mother to death on Saturday.
Jordan left the group home at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday after he lied to staff that he wanted to take a 30-minute walk. He instead went to Dana’s home and stabbed her to death. After this, he called 911 and said, “I finally did it. I killed my mom” and “I bashed her head in and used two knives.”
When first responders arrived, they found Jordan waiting on the front porch. They found Dana’s body inside of the home on the floor with a “large knife handle” sticking out of her chest. There was blood on the carpet around her head. Jordan was arrested at the scene.
An autopsy report said Dana had four stab wounds to her torso and that two of them penetrated her heart. She had blunt force trauma to the back of her head and right shoulder.
Jordan will have an arraignment hearing on October 29, which is usually to answer to the charges and to submit a plea.
KIRO 7 said it was “another domestic violence murder.”
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Deaf people on social media expressed their grief for Flores and questioned how something like this could happen.
A former classmate of Flores told “The Daily Moth” that she went to the California School for the Deaf, Fremont and moved to Seattle in recent years.
The Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services (ADWAS), based in Seattle, posted on Facebook on Thursday, “ADWAS is saddened by recent news of a valued Deaf community member, who was killed due to violence. Our thoughts are with their family and friends.”
ADWAS said their deaf hotline is available 24/7 at 206-812-1001.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/17-year-old-charged-with-murdering-mother-in-seattles-northgate-neighborhood/
https://www.facebook.com/ADWAServices/posts/10157991464323458