Rainier Beach’s Security Contractor Agreed to Drive a Student Home. He No Showed. The Student was Shot to Death Waiting for a Bus.

Nepotism with deadly implications as Paul Patu, brother of RBHS principal Annie Patu — and the man selected to takeover school safety when their sister Marty Jackson (nee Patu) was indicted — neglected to pick up a student per the terms of a safety plan.

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