11 Days -- Three Latest Victims In Kitsap County

Eight people have been shot dead in just three days in the Puget Sound area. The latest victims are two sailors at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base and a woman in Bremerton yesterday.

Police continue to look for motives in the apparently unrelated slayings in King and Kitsap counties.

For all of January 1989, there were only four homicides in King County, compared with seven in only the first 2 1/2 weeks of 1990, according to the King County medical examiner.

The deaths yesterday are the only homicides in the county in Kitsap County so far this year. There were only eight homicides in the county in all of last year.

In the most recent shooting, a clerk at a Bremerton pawnshop, Julie Michaels, 24, was shot to death, and her brother, Allen Michaels, 28, also a clerk at the shop, was in very critical condition today in Bremerton's Harrison Memorial Hospital.

Julie Michaels died in surgery about two hours after her arrival at the hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Loop.

Apparently, the woman was shot after an assailant entered the shop around 11 a.m., said Detective Capt. Dennis Plumb of the Bremerton Police Department. The shop is one of several businesses in a retail strip at Sixth and Callow streets in Bremerton's west end.

Plumb said detectives had no information on possible suspects.

``We know a handgun is missing'' from the pawnshop, Plumb said, adding that detectives had not determined whether the missing gun was the one used in the shootings.

He said each victim suffered a gunshot wound in the abdomen.

``The motive (for the shootings) doesn't appear to be robbery since both tills were untouched,'' Plumb said.

Plumb said the pawnshop shootings were apparently unconnected to the shooting deaths of two sailors whose bodies were discovered yesterday in bachelor quarters at the Bangor base. Base spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Keith Arterburn said the two enlisted men were found dead from gunshot wounds at about 10:30 a.m.

The men's identities were being withheld pending notification of their families.

Arterburn said the area around the Bachelor Enlisted Quarters, in the southeast section of the tightly guarded 7,000-acre base, was sealed off for much of the day yesterday.

Two naval forensic specialists from California are reportedly assisting in the investigation.

The bachelor quarters is near family housing, a commissary and exchange, and fitness center. The Bangor base, home port to the Trident missile submarines, is between Silverdale and Poulsbo.

The Kitsap County slayings are the latest in a string of killings in the Seattle area in the past week.

On Monday, two attorneys were found shot to death in their South Park home. They have been identified as Steven Dorobis, 36, and Eric Hoyer, 34.

In Seattle's Northgate area, a homeowner, Michael Burlingame, shot and killed an intruder, Mitchell P. Harris, 29, in Burlingame's home. Another intruder, Brett Flickinger, 33, was wounded.

In Des Moines, two brothers were killed and a third brother was wounded in a shootout early Sunday at an apartment complex. A fourth man was held for investigation of homicide. The dead were identified as Kevin Richardson, 35, and his brother Jeffrey Richardson, 29. The third brother, Christopher Richardson, 31, and the fourth person are in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center.

Other homicides in King County this month include Joseph Stewart Jr., 19, who was shot in the abdomen on Dec. 31 and died New Year's day, and Javier Ortez Perez, found dead in his Federal Way apartment on Jan. 2.

Perez, who had gotten into a fight with a neighbor, fell and struck his head. The medical examiner found that he died of the head injury and ruled the death a homicide.

The eight

slayings

The shooting deaths in King and Kitsap counties since Sunday:

-- A North Seattle man shoots and kills one of two intruders at his home late Sunday night. The other intruder is wounded.

-- Early Sunday morning, two brothers are killed and a third is wounded in a shootout at an apartment complex in Des Moines, south of Seattle. A fourth man, also wounded, is held for investigation of homicide.

-- Two Seattle attorneys are shot to death Monday in a home they shared in South Park.

-- A brother and sister - clerks at a Bremerton pawn shop - are shot yesterday. The sister dies; the brother is in critical condition.

-- Two sailors stationed at the Bangor submarine base are found shot to death yesterday in their living quarters.