A woman bound the ankles and wrists of her 14-year-old daughter with zip ties — then fatally shot the girl between her eyes at “near point-blank range’’ as the brave youngster was on the phone with 911 pleading for help, police said.
The horrific murder took place Tuesday in the Seattle suburb of Renton, Wash.
Before the gun was fired, the dispatcher heard someone shout, “You called 911” and something that sounded like “blow your head off,” ABC News reported.
Authorities say the mom, 52-year-old Svetlana B. Laurel, who is separated from her husband, Michael Gulizia, went to his home Tuesday, according to ABC.
He recently had been awarded custody of the girl, Natalie, and her 12-year-old brother. Laurel was told she could make only supervised visits.
Laurel arrived on her unsupervised visit while her daughter was upstairs and Gulizia and the boy were out, the Seattle Times reported.
Around that time, she called a friend in New York and spoke to him in Russian. The friend said the call was “strange,” noting Laurel told him she had amended her will to include him. The pal, fearing she’d commit suicide, called Renton cops and asked them to check on her. They didn’t get the chance.
When her husband and son arrived home, she allegedly tied up the boy, jammed a sock into his mouth and threatened to use a stun gun on him.
Laurel got the drop on her husband, used her zip ties to restrain him and zapped him with the stun gun, according to the Times.
When she heard the commotion downstairs, the daughter dialed 911 and was shot to death. Laurel then allegedly tried to kill Gulizia with her pistol — but it misfired, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
As Svetlana was struggling to clear the malfunction, Gulizia rammed her into the wall with his shoulder and was able to grab the weapon.
Officers arrived too late to save the daughter.
Laurel, who had no police record, was charged with numerous crimes and could be sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Both Gulizia and his wife worked at Boeing.