'If he can't have me, no one will': Man blew wife and her boyfriend away with shotgun the day after she got a protection order against the suspect, cops say

A antheral successful Washington state killed his woman and her fellow with a shotgun the time aft she was granted a extortion bid against him, authorities say.

Robert T. Child, 60, faces 2 charges of first-degree murder and burglary, jailhouse records reviewed by Law&Crime state. The suspect was booked into the Mason County Jail connected Wednesday.

The victims were identified by Seattle NBC affiliate KING arsenic Anna Child and Jason Hilde, some of whom were 46 years old.

Anna Child filed for a extortion bid against Robert Child connected March 9, according to instrumentality enforcement. In her request, she claimed her husband had stated that "If helium can't person me, nary 1 will," and she elaborate however "I don't consciousness safe."

On Monday, a Mason County justice approved the extortion order, which banned the suspect from coming wrong 250 feet of his wife, according to the determination TV station. The mates were besides successful the process of getting a divorce.

On Tuesday, Anna Child and Hilde were astatine a location successful Hoodsport, Washington, erstwhile Robert Child reportedly entered the residence. The fishy proceeded to sprout the 2 victims with a shotgun earlier getting successful his achromatic pickup motortruck and driving away, authorities say.

A neighbour said helium heard the blasts, called 911, and headed toward the home, and arsenic helium did so, helium encountered the suspect, whom helium considered a friend.

"I said, Rob, what … did you do? And helium said, 'Dude, they pointed a weapon astatine me, and I killed them,'" Caleb McGill recounted to KING. "Really gruesome, astir gruesome happening I've ever seen. I've ne'er experienced thing similar that."

Law enforcement arrived astatine the location astir 7 p.m. to find Hilde adjacent the beforehand doorway with a gunshot coiled to the head. Anna Child was connected a stairway with gunshot wounds, and a shotgun and spent shells were besides discovered wrong the home.

The Mason County Sheriff's Office reported that night that it was "actively investigating a treble homicide related to a home unit incidental that occurred successful the Hoodsport area" and "working the country arsenic portion of an ongoing hunt for the suspect."

Robert Child was arrested connected Wednesday evening.

Mason County Sheriff Ryan Spurling reportedly said that authorities had not yet served the extortion bid to Robert Child erstwhile the alleged treble execution occurred. The sheriff has ordered an probe to spot whether instrumentality enforcement could person done much to forestall the deaths.