Homicides up slightly in 2004

The number of homicides last year was up in Snohomish County over 2003, according to the medical examiner’s office.

In 2004 there were 14 confirmed homicides reported by the medical examiner’s office.

There were a dozen reported in 2003.

The number for 2004 doesn’t include pending cases in which the cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, said Carolyn Sanden, a spokeswoman for the Snohomish County medical examiner’s office.

It also doesn’t include people such as Florencio Perez-Silva and Nolberto Lopez-Rodriquez who were injured in Snohomish County but died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Of the 14 people killed by another person in 2004, all but three died of gunshot wounds.

Four were women and two were 18 or younger. Five homicides occurred in August. None was reported in April or July.

Two men, Cory Edmon and John Steinbaugh, were shot and killed by police officers.

Edmon, 27, was fatally shot March 26 after allegedly holding a knife to his girlfriend’s son, 1, and threatening to kill the boy inside a Marysville duplex.

The Snohomish County prosecutor’s office ruled that a sheriff’s deputy was justified in shooting Edmon.

A Snohomish County sheriff’s deputy shot Steinbaugh outside a south Everett McDonald’s Sept. 24 after the Everett man allegedly robbed a nearby bank.

A decision about the shooting death of Steinbaugh, 45, is pending.

Two homicides remain unsolved, including the deaths of Kelly Sarsten and Feroz Rahman.

Sarsten’s body was found Aug. 20 in the Pilchuck River near her Machias home. Investigators haven’t said how Sarsten, 37, died.

Rahman’s body was found Nov. 23 on a trail south of Arlington. Rahman, 23, had been shot in the head.

Anyone with information about these cases is asked to call the sheriff’s tip line at 425-388-3845.

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