A Seattle podcaster and her ex-Google engineer husband who had been shot useless by a crazed stalker have been pictured hours after being slain at their $1.6m dwelling.
Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, a self-styled ‘techie’, was shot and killed by Texas trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, with a handgun on Thursday night time at her $1.6m dwelling in Redmond, Washington.
Khodakaramrezaei climbed by way of a window at 2am and shot Sadeghi and her husband, Mohammed Naseri, 35, then himself. Sadeghi’s mom was inside the house on the time and was in a position to escape to a neighbor’s home and name 911.
Police say Khodakaramrezaei first discovered Sadeghi by way of a podcast about discovering work in tech and have become so obsessed together with her that she filed the restraining order towards him.
They instructed the Seattle Instances that Khodakaramrezaei’s work as a trucker made him exhausting to nail down.
On February 22, simply weeks earlier than the killing, data present Khodakaramrezaei despatched Naseri 82 texts on Telegram and she or he instructed police he had as soon as referred to as her greater than 100 occasions in a day.
Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, an self-styled ‘techie’, was shot and killed by trucker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, on Thursday night time in her dwelling in Redmond, Washington
Sadeghi’s husband, Mohammed Naseri, 35, who labored as Amazon software program engineer, was additionally killed
Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe mentioned that Sadeghi contacted them in December 2022, saying Khodakaramrezaei curiosity ‘intensified.’
This led to a short lived order of safety being signed towards Khodakaramrezaei on March 3, with a listening to scheduled for 2 weeks later.
Khodakaramrezaei had additionally been charged with two counts of phone harassment and one rely of stalking. A bench warrant was issued with bail set at $100,000.
Each husband and spouse had been software program engineers, with Sadeghi having labored at Promontory MortgagePath, based on her LinkedIn web page. The couple had been married round 2011 and acquired the Redmond dwelling in 2021.
In accordance with his LinkedIn web page, Naseri had joined Amazon as a lead software program engineer in January 2022 after working for Google.
Naseri wrote within the petition for the no contact order that Sadeghi first instructed him about Khodakaramrezaei in late 2021, describing him because the member of a brand new good friend group.
Khodakaramrezaei was divorced with a toddler however had no prior felony document.
Court docket data obtained by DailyMail.com describe how the pair met in individual in 2022, and the way Sadeghi hid a few of their interactions from her husband.
The ‘friendship’ turned sinister and resulted in her begging him to go away her alone.
Hauntingly, in a petition filed simply final month she, she pleaded: ‘He has bursts of anger and is totally delusional.
‘These delusions make me worry for my life and the lives of my family members.’
Stalker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38, shot himself after killing the girl and her husband at 2am Thursday night time. He broke into the house by way of a window
Sadeghi labored at Promontory MortgagePath as a software program engineer, based on her LinkedIn web page
Court docket data obtained by DailyMail.com describe how the pair met in individual in 2022, and the way Sadeghi hid a few of their interactions from her husband (pictured)
Sadeghi and her husband had been married round 2011 and acquired the Redmond dwelling in 2021
She instructed police how he’d proven up at their dwelling uninvited, delivering flowers and even as soon as promising to ship a musical band to play outdoors.
‘He contacted my husband and continues to take action. He has come to my neighborhood a number of occasions, staying at inns round my neighborhood, he has parked down my avenue in hopes of seeing me.
At one level, he threatened to finish her marriage.
‘I’m struggling a deep-seated worry for my security,’ she mentioned.
She included name logs which show how continuously he phoned her and left messages, and instructed police that he would generally park down the road within the hope of catching a glimpse of her.
Sadeghi blocked him on WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and on her cellphone’s name utility however he started to start out contacting Naseri, as just lately as February 2023.
On February 22, simply weeks earlier than the killing, data present Khodakaramrezaei despatched Naseri 82 texts on Telegram.
The suburban dwelling of Zohreh Sadeghi, 33, and Mohammed Naseri, 35, who had been killed Thursday night time by stalker Ramin Khodakaramrezaei, 38
The inside of the house the place a stalker broke in by way of a window Thursday night time and killed the husband and spouse residing inside
Court docket data obtained by DailyMail.com present {that a} felony criticism was filed towards him per week in the past
The stalker’s relentless calls and voicemails to the sufferer in February, earlier than she referred to as police
The restraining order petition reveals how he despatched her presents like a neck scarf
It is unclear whether or not Khodakaramrezaei was within the space or if he drove from Texas to Washington to assault her. She had just lately reported him to police.
Redmond Police couldn’t verify whether or not the stalker had a felony background, or whether or not he legally obtained his weapon.
They are saying the person began tuning in to her podcast a number of months in the past, however began barraging her with messages.
She had contacted police and authorities had been getting ready to serve him with the restraining order, however had been having hassle pinning him down.
A truck believed to be that of the stalker was faraway from the road at present. The sufferer instructed police how he would park down the road within the hopes of catching a glimpse of her
Police on the scene of the crime on Friday morning. The once-quiet, suburban avenue is now overrun with investigators
Police on the crime scene on Friday morning. Each Zohreh and her husband had been shot useless. The stalker then shot himself within the chest utilizing his handgun
Police on the scene of the murders Thursday night time in Redmond
Jamie Lynn Burns, a lady who was set to maneuver into the home throughout the road from Sadeghi and Naseri, was shocked by the murders.
She mentioned she’d visited the home only a week and a half in the past and noticed Sadeghi’s mom watching ‘diligently’ out a window.
‘I ponder … now if she was possibly, you already know, like on a excessive alert,’ Burns instructed The Each day Beast.
Burns referred to as it ‘stunning’ that one thing like this may occur in Redmond and mentioned the couple had welcomed her to the neighborhood with open arms.
‘They had been simply so pleasant and alluring,’ Burns mentioned. ‘We had been like, ‘Oh my gosh, we could not have discovered higher neighbors.’