EVERETT — For the second time in two months, a convicted murderer with a history of mental illness is on the lam in Snohomish County.
Lowell Gene Lowe, 52, has failed to report to the state Department of Corrections as required after completing jail time Saturday. A warrant for his arrest was issued Wednesday, department spokeswoman Norah West said. Lowe also was included in the weekly fugitive bulletin issued by the department’s Everett office.
Lowe earlier made headlines for failing to report in January. He was arrested about a month after he went missing.
Again, his case has been assigned to the Community Response Unit of corrections staff members and police who focus on difficult-to-find offenders, West said.
Corrections officers have been to Lowe’s last reported address, West said. She said she was not allowed to disclose the area of that address.
“We are actively looking,” she said.
Lowe is classified as a high risk to commit a new violent crime, she said. He served more than 10 years in state prison for a second-degree murder conviction. Since being freed in July 2013, Lowell has been jailed six times for violating conditions of his release.
He pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing his roommate, an Arlington man who had taken Lowe in to try to help him.
Lowe had been drinking and using methamphetamine and was off medication for paranoid schizophrenia when the killing happened.
Lowe is described as 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com.
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