The November trial of a Sequim woman who has been jailed for almost three years after allegedly trying to kill her two youngest sons has been delayed due to the results of a recent mental evaluation.
The examination determined that Ekaterina A. Parrish, charged with two counts of attempted premeditated first-degree murder, is “not competent, but restorable.”
The report came in as court hearings were underway in Superior Court on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 15. A hearing for Parrish was on that docket.
Because of the report’s findings, Judge Simon Barnhart struck Parrish’s Nov. 3 trial date and set a date for a hearing to receive an update on her competency. That hearing is set to take place at 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 9.
Parrish appeared at the hearing via Zoom. She was represented in court by public defender John Hayden. The hearing lasted just over five minutes.
Now 47, Parrish was jailed Dec. 13, 2022 and held in lieu of $1 million bail (reduced from $2 million) after alleging driving her sons down a steep embankment in the 200 block of Hillside Drive, causing the vehicle to barrel roll and airbags to deploy. The crash reportedly resulted in minor injuries to the boys, according to court documents. One of the boys was 9 at the time; the age of the other was not reported.
According to the probable cause statement, one of the boys told a dispatcher that their mother “intentionally drove their car off a roadway and down a steep hill not meant for motor vehicular traffic to kill herself and them in the process.”
When officers responded to the scene they found Parrish “bleeding profusely” from “obvious deep self-inflicted lacerations to both of her inner wrists,” court documents state.
Parrish was booked and jailed after being discharged from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where she was treated for the cuts to her wrists.
In the Oct. 15 court hearing, Barnhart acknowledged Parrish’s request for substitute counsel but said that the request “will be on hold until we get through the competency phase of your matter.”
