SPOKANE, Wash. — A 31-year-old Spokane woman now faces a first-degree murder charge after police say she shot her father, then called to turn herself in.
Alyssa Bradburn appeared before Spokane County Court Commissioner Eugene Cruz from the Spokane County Jail Tuesday, hours after her arrest by Spokane Police. Her bond was set at $1 million, with a prosecutor and the commissioner citing public safety concerns and her history of mental health.
Court documents reveal Bradburn told investigators she'd planned to kill her father, Timothy Bradburn, for weeks.
First responders arrived to the home in the 5600 block of N. Cochran Street just before 1 a.m. Tuesday, after police say a woman called 911 to report she'd shot her father.
"What I woke up to was the sirens and then the lights and as I got out of bed I saw a fire truck with all the lights pull down," neighbor Tonya Mitchell said.
Mitchell believed it was an ill neighbor until she and other people living on the block spoke to one another. She's lived in the same house for 25 years and says she doesn't really know the people living in the home across the street, but she was shocked to learn a man had been killed.
Court documents say after reporting her crime, Bradburn waited on the front porch for officers to arrive. She told them the gun would be in a drawer inside and she had a notebook full of numbers "for her doctors and therapist."
She reportedly told investigators her "journal has my confession and everything in it." KREM 2 News saw investigators on scene taking photographs of pages of a notebook.
Bradburn reportedly told an officer she lived at the North Cochran home, sometimes spending months alone as her father lived part-time in Hawaii. She said she shot him as he returned home from a stay there, firing at least three times.
Court records also show Bradburn told police she planned the murder for at least three weeks, beginning to write in her journal about it days ago. She also practiced with the gun, taking it to a gun range when she couldn't figure out how to operate the gun. She said she wore earplugs and put her dogs in a back room so the shots wouldn't harm them.
"Ms. Bradburn indicated she'd been planning this for quite some time and she'd taken affirmative steps to carry this homicide out," the prosecutor said Tuesday.
Bradburn told police she killed her father because he "beats on the dogs; he beats on me."
She said she was okay with going to jail, telling police, "It's the result. I killed someone, so you go to jail for that. He wasn't trying to kill me at the time."
"I'm a little shocked," Mitchell said after learning what happened next door. "With the way life is going a little not, but at the same time with it being so close on my block."
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