Stalker kills woman, husband in Seattle-area home, US cops say

Police gather at NE 89th Street in Redmond, Wash., on Friday, March 10, 2023, after a suspected stalker killed a couple in their home before killing himself. — The Seattle Times via AP

REDMOND, Washington: A longhaul truck driver from Texas who became obsessed with a software engineer in Washington state after meeting her through a social media chatroom app killed her, her husband and himself after stalking them for months, police said.

Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and her husband, Mohammad Milad Naseri, 35, were shot to death in their suburban Seattle home by Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, according to Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe. He said officers spent a week trying to serve a protection order on Khodakaramrezaei but had not been able to find him before the killings.