Police: Suspect in Port Orchard killing leads officers on high-speed chase, escapes
Posted 11:48 AM, November 5, 2014, by Q13 FOX News Staff, Updated at 01:34pm, November 5, 2014
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Kalac has a criminal history and has previously been charged with felony assault, felony harassment including threat to kill, theft, malicious mischief and drunk driving. Those crimes were in Kitsap County, with the most recent charge coming in April.
Portland police called Kalac the suspect in the killing of a South Kitsap woman found dead in her home by a family member Tuesday. The family member found the woman’s body around 3:32 p.m. in her apartment in the 4000 block of Madrona Drive SE. Detectives say the family member who found the woman’s body at first thought she was just badly injured, but deputies determined she had been killed.
Police did not release how the woman in her 30s was killed, but said it appears she was targeted, and this was not a random assault.
This poor child.
Homicide suspect has history of assault, DV
Kitsap Sun staff
9:44 AM, Nov 5, 2014
9 mins ago
Kitsap County Superior Court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for
David Michael Kalac on suspicion of second degree murder of
Amber L. Coplin on Tuesday.
Kalac, 33, has a history of felony assault and harassment, including a conviction in April for domestic violence against another woman, court documents show.
According to a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office certificate of probable cause issued Wednesday, Kalac had been living with Coplin at a unit on the 4000 block of Madrona Drive SE.
Coplin’s body was found by her 13-year-old son, court documents state. The boy, who also lives at the residence, told investigators that Kalac and Coplin had been in a very loud argument late Monday. When the boy left Tuesday morning, his mother was in bed. He returned home later and assumed she was sleeping in. When later she remained in bed, he called his father, who came over, found the woman unresponsive and called 911 about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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South Kitsap Fire & Rescue arrived and confirmed that Coplin was deceased. On the wall of the unit Sheriff’s deputies found writing on a picture, “she killed me first.” The victim's purse had been dumped out, and on her license was written “dead.”
