Update: Suspect will be arraigned on murder charges 11 a.m. Aug. 21

Geraldo Castro DeJesus will be arraigned on murder charges at 11 a.m. Aug. 21 in Courtroom 272, Kitsap County Superior Court. DeJesus is suspected of the shooting deaths of a woman and a child at Kariotis Mobile Home Park in March. He was arrested early Aug. 20, the sheriff’s department reported.

EAST BREMERTON — Geraldo Castro DeJesus will be arraigned on murder charges at 11 a.m. Aug. 21 in Courtroom 272, Kitsap County Superior Court, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

DeJesus is suspected of the shooting deaths of a woman and a child at Kariotis Mobile Home Park in March. He was arrested early Aug. 20, the sheriff’s department reported.

Detectives arrested DeJesus without incident at 8:30 a.m. at his place of employment, the sheriff’s office reported. He was booked into Kitsap County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault. Bail was set at $2 million.

Officials scheduled a press conference for 2 p.m. Aug. 20 at the Sheriff’s Office — later moved to the County Commission chambers because of possibly inclement weather — and planned to release additional details on the arrest then.

The woman and child were killed and a neighbor was injured March 28 in the shooting. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a report of gunshots heard at the mobile home park that morning at 2:18 a.m.

“We got multiple calls about multiple gunshots being fired in the park,” Deputy Ken Dickinson said at the time.

Four people were inside the home when the shooter entered it: Heather Kelso, 29, an employee of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; Kaden Lum, 2; Kaden’s mother; and the neighbor.

Kelso and the man were shot first; Kaden, who was in a bedroom with his mother, was shot as the gunman pursued the man as he escaped through a window in the bedroom.

 

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