BOTHELL – Police on Saturday released the name of the man who was shot inside a Bothell house where a toddler had been fatally beaten more than a decade ago.
The man, Douglas B. Erlandson, 60, remained at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on Saturday. He was in critical condition, a nursing supervisor at the hospital said.
His son found him unconscious, not breathing and bleeding Friday morning at the house in the 4300 block of 212th Street SE. Police say Erlandson had been severely assaulted, but wouldn’t say whether investigators have a suspect in the assault.
Erlandson is 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.
Everett police Sgt. Boyd Bryant wouldn’t say Saturday whether Noreen Erlandson was a suspect in Friday’s assault or whether investigators had spoken to her about the assault.
The Everett Police Department is investigating the case at the request of Snohomish County sheriff’s detectives, who have been spread thin working on other recent homicides and assaults.
Reporter Diana Hefley: 425-339-3463 or hefley@ heraldnet.com.
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