BOTHELL – A man found shot Friday inside a Bothell house where a toddler was fatally beaten more than a decade ago has died.
Douglas B. Erlandson, 60, died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, police said Sunday.
Detectives are now investigating the case as a homicide, Everett Sgt. Boyd Bryant said. Crime laboratory technicians from the Washington State Patrol are expected to return to the house today to collect additional evidence, Bryant said.
Erlandson’s son told police he found his father unconscious, not breathing and bleeding shortly after 8 a.m. Friday at their home in the 4300 block of 212th Street SE.
Bryant wouldn’t say Sunday if investigators have a suspect in the shooting. Detectives are investigating leads and collecting additional evidence, Bryant said. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to complete an autopsy today.
Erlandson was the ex-husband of a former Bothell nurse who was convicted of second-degree murder in the beating death of the couple’s adopted 21/2-year-old daughter, Kayla, in 1991.
Noreen Erlandson, 53, served about 12 years in prison for the child’s death, but was released in December 2004 after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
Her murder conviction was overturned after state Supreme Court rulings invalidated dozens of murder convictions around the state.
The couple were divorced in 2002. In May 2004, Douglas and Noreen Erlandson signed an agreement requiring him to refinance the family home and pay her $97,500. He continued to live in the Bothell house with his son.
Bryant wouldn’t say Sunday whether Noreen Erlandson was a suspect in Friday’s shooting or whether investigators had questioned her.
The Everett Police Department is investigating the case at the request of Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives, who are spread thin working on other recent homicides and assaults.
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