PORT ANGELES — Nobody had any idea a deteriorated relationship could result in murder-suicide, the mother of a woman shot to death by a former boyfriend said Wednesday.
Jeffrey Calvert, 41, of Bellingham kicked in the door to 35-year-old Christin Stock’s Oak Street home in Port Angeles, shot her to death and then killed himself with a second gun on Sunday afternoon.
“I couldn’t imagine [Calvert] being violent or having a gun,” Dr. Heather Irwin, Stock’s mother, said in an interview.
“I don’t think it entered into anyone’s mind.”
Family members knew Calvert was harassing Stock, Irwin said, but they had never heard her say she was afraid of him.
“Her best friend was starting to worry, but the one side of [Calvert] was very pleasant,” Irwin said, “and I don’t think Christin saw the other piece until she moved to Bellingham.
“I don’t think it’s something that we could have prevented unless she’d never met him.”
Stock and her children lived in a house owned by her parents. Irwin is a doctor in Olympia.
