VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Vancouver City Council approved a $383,000 settlement Monday with the family of a woman who was stabbed to death two years ago by her brother.
The family of Shirry Rice-Dohman said the death could have been prevented, but a Vancouver police officer failed to arrest the man in a domestic violence call three days earlier.
The Columbian reported that Western State Hospital doctors evaluated the brother, Michael Schuurmans, before his murder trial and found he was insane at the time of the stabbing. He believed he was god and his sister was the devil.
Schuurmans was sentenced in March 2010 to an indefinite stay at the mental hospital.
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