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Girls in Amber Alert found OK; mother suspected in stabbing still at large

May 3, 2012, 11:55 AM | Updated: 9:17 pm

The King County Sheriff’s Office says two girls at the center of an Amber Alert have been fou...

The King County Sheriff's Office says two girls at the center of an Amber Alert have been found safe. (King County Sheriff's Office)

The King County Sheriff’s Office says two girls at the
center of an Amber Alert have been found safe.

The girls’ mother, Doreen Starrish, is suspected of
stabbing their father at his Shoreline home Thursday
morning and then taking off in her car with the kids.

Sheriff’s say Starrish’s relative dropped 7-year-old Helen
Smith and 3-year-old Alice Smith at the victim’s mother’s
house in Seattle.

Starrish, 28, is still on the loose.

Cindi West, with the King County Sheriff’s Office, says
when
deputies arrived to the victim’s house in the
1500 block of NE 190th Thursday morning,
they found a 29-year-old man who had been stabbed in the
chest. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in
critical condition. He is out of surgery, but in the same
condition.

“The victim’s estranged girlfriend, they have two children
together, (two girls ages 3 and 7) fled after the
stabbing.”

cedargrove
Doreen Smith is a
suspect in a Shoreline stabbing. She made off with her two
daughters.

West says Starrish is described as looking Native
American, she has a tattoo on the right
side
of her neck and she’s about 5’8″ and weighs 170 lbs.

Police believed Starrish took off in a 2000 silver Lincoln
Navigator with the license plate ABK0976. The car was
found on Lake City Way at about 1:15 p.m. with a male
inside. Starrish and the girls were not inside.

Now police are saying the woman may be driving a black,
Cadillac STC.

KIRO 7
reports
Starrish allegedly stabbed the girls’
father when she went go pick them up from his house. She
stabbed him, grabbed the girls, and took off in the
Lincoln. KIRO 7 reports when investigators asked who
stabbed him, the man answered “I’d rather not say.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 911.

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