New details: Investigator gives timeline of Forest Grove mass murder

Key Points:

• Investigators detailed a timeline showing how a domestic dispute between Benjamin Charles Parker and his girlfriend Stella Kimsey escalated into a quintuple homicide near Forest Grove, Oregon, on August 21.
• Parker, 36, killed five people—Stella Kimsey, her mother Rowan, grandmother Mary Kimsey, Stella’s best friend Linsey Haraldsen, and Linsey’s partner Alvin Chu—using a .22-caliber firearm before fleeing and later dying by suicide in Enumclaw, Washington.
• The killings began after a major fight led Stella to ask Parker to leave; he shot the victims as they came to check on Stella, then covered the bodies with tarps and set fires before escaping in a vehicle.
• Parker confessed to his mother by phone, admitting the attack was premeditated and expressing he was unprepared to face first-degree murder charges; his body was found in the abandoned vehicle on Sunday.
• The Kimsey family remembered the victims fondly and thanked investigators for caring for surviving farm animals, while also urging the public to show compassion toward the Parker family; domestic violence resources were provided for those in need.