SPOKANE, Wash. — A judge set bond at $1 million on Friday afternoon for a man accused of murdering a woman at a Hillyard apartment complex.
Joshua Forrester was booked into the Spokane County Jail for a first-degree murder charge on Thursday after Major Crimes detectives found him in covered in blood following a shooting in Hillyard.
Records indicate that Forrester does not have a previous criminal history.
The judge said on Friday that Forrester is not allowed contact with the victim's family or the one-and-a-half-year-old child present during the shooting.
Spokane police said they responded to the report of shots fired in the 2900 block of Diamond Avenue, west of Market Street, early Thursday morning.
Within minutes, police received another call about a man "covered in blood" walking down the street at Queen Avenue and Haven Street.
Upon arriving at an apartment complex near the corner of Diamond Avenue and Haven Street, police found the woman dead and an infant who was alive and apparently unharmed.
Officers later found Forrester covered in blood and detained him, according to Spokane Police Sgt. Terry Preuninger. Police are not searching for any other people in connection to the incident.
A man told KREM's Nicole Hernandez that he heard shots fired and called 911 after seeing a man walk out of an apartment across from him covered in blood.
Hernandez said the man was visibly shaken and crying when she spoke with him.
Roads were blocked in the area as authorities worked to complete the investigation, which took several hours.
Preuninger said detectives with the Major Crimes Unit were at the scene to investigate.