Roses On Shop Door Mark Women's Grief At Losing A Friend -- Bremerton Pawnshop Attack Saddens, Puzzles Residents

BREMERTON - Shortly before noon yesterday, Teresa Harvey laid two long-stemmed roses - one pink, one red - on the push bars on the locked Charleston Pawn Shop doors.

The 20-year-old unemployed Bremerton practical nurse and waitress said the gesture was ``a statement of friendship for Julie.''

Julie Lynn Tuscher, 24, a clerk at the pawnshop at the corner of Callow Avenue and Sixth Street in west Bremerton, was fatally shot in the abdomen Tuesday morning while showing a customer a handgun.

Her brother, Allan Michaels, 28, the pawnshop manager, also was shot in the abdomen.

``I used to buy jewelry from her all the time,'' Harvey said.

So did Harvey's sister, Ardith Cook, 25, a Bremerton housewife, who drove her to the shop yesterday.

``Her thing was jewelry,'' Cook said of Tuscher. ``She was excellent in jewelry. She knew stones, she knew gold, silver, metals . . . whatever.''

``Julie was stunning, a real pretty girl,'' Cook said.

``It's just so sad,'' Harvey added.

Next door at Olympic Accounting & Paralegal, Nancy Kesteren, the owner, agreed - after she unlocked her door, secured against intruders since the shooting.

``We didn't even know anything happened,'' Kesteren said. No one heard the shots. ``All at once police and ambulances showed up.''

A half-block away on Callow Avenue, at the city's only other pawnshop, Rod Fragiao, manager of Dave's Guns and Loans, said it was the first pawnshop robbery in years.

Fragiao said the timing surprised him. ``You expect anything to happen after hours,'' not early in the morning, he said.

Tuscher was the daughter of Allan Kadra Sr. of Tahuya, Mason County, and Rita Kadra of Kitsap County. Her brother had changed his name from Kadra to Michaels. There is also a sister, Debbie Ellis, of Belfair, Mason County.