For most of the past two months, Rachel Burkheimer’s family has started their day in a Snohomish County courtroom, listening to the awful details of a murder.
But not Wednesday.
Instead, those who loved the slain 18-year-old celebrated a new addition to the family. Rachel’s older sister, Meghan Burkheimer, 23, gave birth to a boy, her second child.
Julius Sterling Burkheimer arrived at 3:44 a.m. Wednesday, “healthy and cranky” and weighing 6 pounds, 11 ounces, grandfather Bill Burkheimer said.
His eldest daughter and newest grandchild were both fine, the Marysville man said.
“It is a good thing,” Bill Burkheimer said, “a really good thing.”
Rachel Burkheimer’s family showed up a few hours after court got under way Wednesday and remained until the jury was sent home for the day.
They’ve been present for each day of testimony in this trial, the second since March.
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