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A Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday.
A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times in the torso outside her Southwest Hudson Street home around 1 p.m., according to the Seattle Police Department and the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Police have not arrested anyone and are not looking for suspects, spokesperson Detective Brian Pritchard said Wednesday.
Members of Towers Parry’s family did not immediately respond to inquiries Wednesday.
Towers Parry, who was in the midst of eviction proceedings, came out of her house and pointed a shotgun at the two men before the 40-year-old, armed with a handgun, opened fire. In a phone call Wednesday, Pritchard said the men did not work in law enforcement and were not there to evict Towers, but he would not describe the paperwork they were delivering.
Tuesday’s shooting happened less than two weeks after Towers Parry’s home was foreclosed on and scheduled to be sold at a Sept. 20 auction, King County housing records show. Towers Parry had failed to make about $24,000 in mortgage payments and still owed more than $225,000 on the home, which she previously shared with her ex-husband, according to the records.
A photo taken of the house on Tuesday showed a large U.S. flag hanging from the home’s front window underneath the word “QAnon,” the name of a far-right conspiracy theory that gained traction online after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.
A divorce, a multiple sclerosis diagnosis, increasing debt and an apparent descent into conspiracy theory marked the final years of Towers Parry’s life.
Troubles for Towers Parry may have begun as recently as 2015 when she developed a “rapidly progressive neurologic” condition while working for Swedish Health Services, according to a 2017 court filing in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington.
Towers Parry said she had multiple sclerosis and wanted to keep the Hudson Street home so she could attend her regular neurology appointments in Seattle, according to a 2018 divorce record filed in King County Superior Court.
The couple finalized their divorce in October 2019, records show. About 15 months later, video shared online appeared to show Towers Parry participating in the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., wearing a coat and carrying a flag both festooned with a large letter “Q.”
“Hi patriots, it’s Dr. Tammy,” she says in the video while standing in front of the U.S. Capitol building. “We just stormed the Congress and I’m going to tell you right now: It was wild.”
In the video, Towers Parry describes entering the government building and being pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed.
