Seattle Times: Three men charged in = 'thrill kill' of Navy officer in Skagit County

From: Subject: Seattle Times: Three men charged in 'thrill kill' of Navy officer in Skagit County Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:22:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0350_01C6386B.7825D800" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0350_01C6386B.7825D800 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://kinkele.com/MediaHTMLs/Seattle%20Times/Seattle%20Times%20Three%20men%20charged%20in%20'thrill%20kill'%20of%20Navy%20officer%20in%20Skagit%20County.htm Seattle Times: Three men charged in = 'thrill kill' of Navy officer in Skagit County ">

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Three men charged in = 'thrill kill'=20 of Navy officer in Skagit County

by Andrew DeMillo
Seattle Times staff reporter

MOUNT VERNON - The 23-year-old Navy officer shot as he drove = along a=20 Skagit County highway was the victim of a "thrill kill" by three = Anacortes=20 men charged in his death yesterday, authorities said.=20
Seth Anderson, 23, and his half-brother, Eben Berriault, 36, = were=20 charged with first-degree murder. Adam Moore, 25, was charged with = first-degree manslaughter in Friday's shooting death of Scott = Kinkele.=20
Berriault also was charged with first-degree assault in an = earlier=20 shooting and unlawful possession of a gun, because he is a = convicted=20 felon.=20
On a night marked by heavy drinking, the three were riding in=20 Anderson's 1980 blue Pontiac Firebird when they killed Kinkele, a=20 lieutenant junior grade at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, = according to=20 documents filed in Skagit County Superior Court.=20
"This wasn't a case of road rage. This wasn't revenge," Tom = Verge,=20 Skagit County prosecutor, said yesterday. "To call this senseless = doesn't=20 even begin to describe this crime. I don't know how to describe = this other=20 than a thrill kill."=20
Prosecutors say the three suspects drank early in the afternoon = at an=20 Anacortes tavern before packing a .22-caliber bolt-action rifle = and a=20 12-gauge shotgun into their car to poach deer, court papers said.=20
Several times, Anderson and Berriault told Moore he picked the = wrong=20 night to hang out with them "because we're going to prison," Moore = later=20 told investigators, according to a court affidavit.=20
Prosecutors say that as the trio set out on Highway 20, = Berriault=20 leaned out of the car window and shot at a road sign and later at = a dog.=20
Later, he fired the rifle at another car, driven by a = 33-year-old=20 Sedro-Woolley woman who was not hurt.=20
When a police cruiser pulled over their car to warn them about=20 speeding, Berriault threw the rifle out the window, according to = the=20 affidavit. After the officer left, Berriault pulled the shotgun = out of the=20 trunk and fired it at another road sign.=20
Kinkele had just left a service station after midnight when the = three=20 accelerated toward his car, Berriault leaning out the window with = his=20 shotgun, court papers said.=20
A second later, Kinkele was shot in the back of the head, = through the=20 rear window. He died immediately.=20
Moore said Berriault and Anderson seemed excited and proud of = the=20 shooting and laughed afterward, according to the affidavit. = Prosecutors=20 said the three picked up the discarded rifle before returning to=20 Anacortes.=20
Skagit County sheriff's officers tracked them down after = receiving a=20 tip from a witness who had written down part of Anderson's = license-plate=20 number, Verge said.=20
A .22-caliber rifle and a 12-gauge shotgun were seized from = Berriault's=20 home, according to a search warrant.=20
Berriault and Anderson are being held on $1 million bail each = and Moore=20 on $250,000 bail. They are to be arraigned Wednesday.=20
Verge said prosecutors may consider filing a charge of = aggravated=20 murder, which would carry the possibility of the death penalty.=20
If convicted, Berriault faces 46 to 58 years in prison. = Anderson, who=20 prosecutors think was driving during both shootings, faces between = 38 and=20 48 years in prison, and Moore faces between six and nine years. =

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by Andrew DeMillo Seattle Times staff reporter

by Andrew DeMillo
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