'He was going to shoot the kids': Stepfather gunned down by next-door neighbor while trying to kill his stepdaughters during family fight that 'spilled outside,' cops say

A stepfather successful Washington state was gunned down by his neighbor portion trying to termination his stepdaughters, 1 of whom died, during a household combat that "spilled" onto the neighbor's property, cops say.

Arnino Guanlao, 47, of Puyallup, was firing a handgun astatine his big stepdaughters successful beforehand of the neighbour connected the greeting of April 2 aft a household combat spilled onto the resident's driveway and into his garage, according to police. He was fatally shot by the neighbor. Christiannel Lyle Macapagal Maningat, Guanlao's stepdaughter, was besides killed.

"He was going to sprout the kids," witnesser Michelle Weingarden-Bandes, who lives nearby, said of the neighbor.

"He conscionable kept saying, 'He was going to sprout the kids,'" Weingarden-Bandes told section ABC affiliate KOMO. "I deliberation he's successful shock, and helium kept saying, 'I person my gun, my gun's inactive connected me, my gun's inactive connected me,' and that was astir each helium kept saying."

Maningat, 23, was killed during the mayhem. Her sister was besides changeable and hospitalized with superior injuries. Residents reported proceeding astir 10 gunshots.

"There were 3 household members progressive successful a home situation," Puyallup Police Capt. Kevin Gill told reporters astatine a property conference. "It spilled extracurricular of the location and ended up successful the neighbor's driveway oregon store area. One of the household members ended up shooting 2 different big household members."

Gill said that "the homeowner of the neighboring location intervened, and the fishy was changeable by the homeowner," per KOMO. "We're interviewing a batch of witnesses who, arsenic you tin imagine, are rather distraught," Gill told reporters.

According to section NBC affiliate KING, usage of unit is allowed to support oneself oregon others nether Washington law, but it indispensable beryllium tenable and indispensable and cannot transcend what is needed. Deadly unit is lone allowed if a idiosyncratic is facing superior harm oregon death, KING reports.

"That's nether investigation, arsenic to precisely however the circumstances took place," Gill said astir the legality of the neighbor's involvement. Police person reportedly been interviewing the resident, who is cooperating.

Family members told KOMO that Maningat was idiosyncratic who "never held grudges and was ever truthful accepting and genuinely kind." It's unclear what sparked the combat that led to the fatal shooting.

"She was similar the 'mom' successful each situation, ever checking connected radical and making definite everyone was okay," the household said successful a statement. "She was conscionable a truly lovable person, and truthful galore radical loved her deeply."

A GoFundMe describes Maningat's decease arsenic stemming from "a devastating enactment of home violence" and "a calamity that nary household should ever person to endure." It says the 2 stepdaughters who were changeable person 2 different sisters "who are carrying fear, confusion, and heartbreak that nary words tin afloat explain," per the description.

"Everything astir their lives changed successful a substance of moments," the GoFundMe says.