Mike and Carol Riley start feeling the weight when the trick-or-treaters disappear with buckets full of Halloween candy. The sadness never evaporates, but it lifts a bit after the last note of the last Christmas carol.
That’s the reality of the holiday season for the Rileys, whose 19-year-old daughter, Kimberly, was killed along with 5-year-old Jeremy Britt Bayinthavong on Thanksgiving night six years ago as a festive party wound down in a South End Tacoma home.
“It’s an emotional time for us,” Riley, now 57, said this week.
Each year, the Rileys have a low-key Thanksgiving at their home in Volcano, Hawaii. They get invitations to come to their friends’ home but they never accept, and instead opt for a quiet meal together…
…Six years later, Tacoma police investigators have made no arrest in the case. They believe the gunman targeted the house, or one of the nearly two dozen people inside…
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