Overview
- Leahy, 31, was charged Monday with first-degree murder with a deadly-weapon enhancement and remains jailed on $10 million bail.
- Investigators say laundry-room video showed a man track the camera’s power cord, and detectives later found the device unplugged with Leahy’s fingerprints on the door.
- Charging papers allege he stalked another student through the apartment complex and was recorded trying to enter campus buildings and private homes in Seattle’s Ravenna area.
- Prosecutors say the evidence does not currently support a hate-crime charge, and detectives are still working to determine why the killing occurred.
- If convicted of first-degree murder with the weapon enhancement, he faces a likely sentence of roughly 22 to 29 years under Washington guidelines, as vigils in Seattle and Santa Fe honor 19-year-old Juniper Blessing.