Inmate in suicide attempt identified

Herald staff

Last year, David W. Kaylor stabbed his ex-girlfriend in the throat and almost killed her.

Recently, he has been under investigation for asking a former Snohomish County Jail inmate to finish the job.

In court papers filed Friday, authorities revealed it was Kaylor, 25, of Everett who attempted to hang himself Monday night with a bedsheet in the jail’s maximum security unit.

Kaylor had been scheduled for sentencing later this month on the attempted first-degree murder charge for the 2001 attack on his former girlfriend. It’s uncertain how the attempted suicide will affect the sentencing date.

Kaylor, who pleaded guilty to the attempted murder charge, was charged Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court with a new count of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. That count surfaced after jail personnel intercepted a letter the defendant mailed to a former inmate requesting that he "do this favor for me," Michael Magee, assistant chief criminal deputy prosecutor, said in charging papers.

Other comments in the letter raised suspicions, and a police investigation revealed that Kaylor had sought out the ex-inmate to kill the woman. In exchange, Kaylor allegedly promised to do some "work" for the former inmate, papers said.

Magee said Kaylor told police he had provided the former inmate with the intended victim’s name, work address, the address of her parents, a description of her and magazine photos that generally resembled her, papers said.

Magee wrote that Kaylor’s "obvious determination to kill (the woman) makes him a clearly dangerous person."

Magee is asking $500,000 bail on this new charge.

Kaylor is still hospitalized, but hospital officials said his condition is improving. He was discovered hanging in his cell around 8 p.m. Monday, jail officials said.

Although he was in a maximum security unit, he had not been under a suicide watch and had given no indication he was a threat to himself, jail officials said.