Judge Rules Killer Insane -- Woman Not Guilty In Deaths Of Boyfriend, Child

A 22-year-old Seattle woman charged with murdering her boyfriend and 2-year-old daughter has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Tonia Davis - who fled the scene last March on roller skates - was examined by a private psychiatrist for 50 hours and at Western State Hospital. The doctors' reports stated that shortly before she killed Adrian Reed and Antonia Reed she was raped by Reed and had watched him beat her child, which triggered a "psychotic episode."

Davis has been on medication since her arrest in March but has been progressing well, said defense lawyer John Henry Brown.

The prosecution did not contest the insanity motion brought by Brown.

Davis, a former music student at Shoreline Community College and nanny, will be sent back to Western State "for an indefinite period of time, at least a few years," said prosecutor's spokesman Dan Donohoe.

King County Superior Judge Joan DuBuque found Davis not guilty by reason of insanity in the murder of Adrian Reed and dismissed the murder charge in Antonia's death, as well as two counts of assaulting police officers, two counts of taking a motor vehicle without the owners' permission and one count of stealing a pair of shoes during a burglary.

Brown said Reed beat Davis and she had tried for the past year to leave him. On the morning of March 19, Davis went to her mother's Kent-area home and was raped by Reed, who then beat Antonia, lacerating her liver. "Then she lost it completely, smacked him with an ax and set him on fire," Brown said.

Antonia was left behind in the flames.

Brown said Davis left then tried to return to the home once she realized her daughter was trapped inside, but she was locked out.

Davis roller-skated to a neighbor's house, where she took car keys, tennis shoes and stole a water-department truck. She was arrested at a police station.