A 44-year-old Sequim woman is being held in the Clallam County jail on two charges of attempted first-degree murder.

Ekaterina Alekseevna Parrish drove herself and her two children over a hillside in Sequim’s Bell Hill neighborhood on Nov. 29, according to a probable cause statement.

She was booked on Dec. 13 after she had been discharged from a Seattle hospital.

Her bail was initially set at $2 million but was reduced to $1 million on Dec. 14.

Parrish was scheduled to be in court again on Dec. 16 for the filing of information and the prosecuting attorney’s office’s presentation of a final charging decision.

Arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Dec. 23.

The criminal information document filed Dec. 8 with Clallam County Superior Court accused Parrish of two counts of first-degree attempted premeditated murder with special allegations — domestic violence and position of trust. The maximum penalty on each count is life imprisonment and/or a $50,000 fine plus restitution and assessments.

Michele Devlin, chief criminal deputy prosecuting attorney, said she was adding a supplement to the probable cause statement that was “pretty much her confession of what she did to her children.”

Devlin said the state had requested the original $2 million bail because it considers Parrish a danger to the community and to specific individuals as well as the likelihood of her becoming a flight risk due to her international relatives. Parrish’s mother moved back to the former Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, also known as the Kyrgyz Republic, about five years ago, according to the probable cause statement.

Parrish, who has no criminal history, also had given a neighbor $177,000 cash in a box to give to a surviving family member, Devlin told the court.

If she makes bail, Parrish can have no communication or contact with her two sons and must stay 1,000 feet away from them and submit to electronic home monitoring with exceptions for medical or court appointments or other approved trips.

When asked Dec. 14 if she had an attorney, Parrish said she would like to hire one but had not made any effort to do so yet. Barnhart said he would appoint public defender Harry Gasnick to represent her until she determines what she wants to do.

Incident details

Clallam County Sheriff’s deputies investigated a 9-1-1 report of a one-vehicle rollover at 1:15 p.m. Nov. 29 in the 200 block of Hillside Drive, according to the statement.

Two boys reported they had been in a vehicle rollover and didn’t know where they were, the statement said.

One of them told the dispatcher “his mother intentionally drove their car off the roadway and down a steep hill not meant for motor vehicular traffic to kill herself and kill them in the process,” the statement said.

The boys got themselves out of the vehicle and were taken to a nearby house to get warm, the statement said. Both had minor injuries, according to the statement. One was 9 years old; the age of the other was not reported.

Multiple airbags deployed in the car and Parrish had “obvious deep self-inflicted lacerations to both of her inner wrists, which were bleeding profusely,” according to the probable cause statement.

A neighbor told Deputy Eric Morris that when he first arrived to help, Parrish told him, “He’s going to take my kids.”

Parrish and her husband, Gary Dean Parrish, have been involved in divorce proceedings since Jan. 28, 2021, according to Clallam County court records.

Morris noticed a small, fixed blade knife about 4 to 6 inches long and a black plastic knife sheath covered in blood in the center console, the probable cause statement said.

The car went over the hill and through two fences before it landed nose-first in the roadway, then continued down the hill, going airborne and nose-dived into Scotch broom and heavy shrub, according to the statement, which said it appeared to have barrel-rolled and ended on all four tires.

Parrish was taken to Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles where it was determined her wrist injuries were so significant that she had to be transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for further treatment and surgeries.

Clallam County Chief Criminal Deputy Brian King said that Parrish was released the morning of Dec. 12 and then taken to the Clallam County Jail.