Community members gathered together to remember the lives of Tausha Schmidt and Justin Wilkerson, two 39-year-old parents who were killed by a suspected DUI driver on Jan. 20.
Schmidt and Wilkerson were raising three kids together, including a 8-year-old boy, 15-year-old boy, and 17-year-old girl named Karen Schmidt. Schmidt said she is currently staying with her grandparents and is “pretty much in charge” of looking after her younger brothers.
On Saturday, about 50 people gathered at the Timbers Apartments, where family and friends said the couple called home. Several firefighters with the Arlington Fire Department also stopped by to pay their respects.a 28-year-old Stanwood man accused of killing her parents “For a while I had a lot of anger for the person who had hit him,” Karen said. “But I think in the end, I forgave him because he’s going through his own pain as well.”
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