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Saying the attorney’s recommendations were insufficient, Superior Court Judge Dave Kurtz today sentenced Elmer Nash, Jr. to serve 10 years in prison followed by a lifetime of community custody following his release for setting a fire at Everett Community College in 1987 in which Everett Firefighter Gary Parks died. At the time he set the […]

Editor’s Update Saturday 12:25 PM: Officers with the Snohomish County Violent Offender Taskforce spent all night tracking Nash down and took him into custody at 10 Am this morning. He has been booked into the Snohomish County Jail and his sentencing hearing is set for Thursday May 13th. On March 25th 47-year-old Elmer Nash Junior […]

Today the Everett Police and Fire Departments issued a joint news release announcing charges against a Snohomish man for murder in a fire at Everett Community College 34 years ago. At his arraignment today that man, Elmer Nash Junior entered a guilty plea. A separate story will follow regarding the plea. (LD) – Murder charges […]

The City of Everett and Everett Community College will hold a remembrance of Everett Firefighter Gary Parks at 3pm Thursday February 16th. Parks was killed 25 years ago, Feb. 16, 1987, while battling an arson fire that destroyed more than 40,000 books and the entire Everett Community College library and student union. Two years after […]