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April 21, 2011 in City
New details released in Forker Road homicide
Murder suspect Justice E. Sims, 18, appears in court on April 18, 2011.
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A 19-year-old woman accused of helping murder a Cheney man told a friend she was with the victim the day of the murder and watched as her brother and another man beat him for hours.
Breeanna C. Sims said her brother, Justice E. Sims, 18, believed Nicholas J. Thoreson, 22, had held her against her will, which led to an hours-long assault with a machete that ended with Thoreson dying of a gunshot to the head. His charred body was found in the trunk of his burning 1987 Ford Thunderbird at Forker and Bigelow Gulch roads about 12:30 a.m. on April 13. A burned gasoline can was nearby.
The Simses also told a friend that Thoreson was a “snitch” who had told on Breeanna Sims and that Justice Sims stabbed him several times before shooting in the head at an apartment occupied by Taylor J. Wolf, 20.
The details were included in probable cause affidavits unsealed Thursday.
Wolf, who friends say knew Thoreson through a job corps program, and the Simses are in Spokane County Jail on $1 million bond. They face murder, kidnapping and arson charges.
Thoreson has an 11-month-old baby.
Police found motorcycles and Hells Angels paraphernalia in a shop next to the apartment at 13615 E. Trent Ave. Wolf is an associate of Ricky Jenks, the sergeant at arms for the Spokane-based chapter of the Hells Angels who is in jail on a federal firearm charge.
Detecetives also found a blood stain spatter in the shop, as well as blood stains on a door. A large machete knife with blood stains was located in another room.
One man told police Wolf approached him while he was working in a garage at the apartment complex and said he needed to leave town and that “he had snapped and killed someone,” according to the affidavit. Wolf admitted to being involved “in the burned car that was on the news” and threatened the man and his girlfriend if they told anyone.
Sims told a friend “that he had messed up and was going to take the blame and not let his sister go down,” according to the affidavit.
The Simses were in the cab with Wolf when he was arrested, but detectives didn’t have probable cause for their arrest.
Then on April 15, a witness contacted detectives and said he talked to the Simses a day earlier, and that Justice Sims “told him that he killed somebody,” according to the affidavit.
The man said Justice Sims said “that he had messed up and was going to take the blame and not let his sister go down,” according to the affidavit.
Sims reportedly said “that he had a list of people that he wanted to kill and now that he had started, he didn’t want to stop.” He wanted to a rob a bank that day but couldn’t because he didn’t have a gun. He wanted two retrieve to firearms from a field near where the body had been found, and the witness told Sims he would get a vehicle and return to help.
Instead, the man contacted police and arranged for detectives to follow him after he picked up Breanna Sims, leading to her arrest. Detectives recovered a loaded, sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun and a .38 caliber revolver, which they believe was used to kill Thoreson.
Another witness told police that Breeanna Sims had admitted to helping move Thoreson’s Thunderbird to the garage and to helping her brother and Wolf load his body into the trunk. She accompanied them to Bigelow Gulch and Forker and fled with them after the Thunderbird was set on fire, the witness told police. She also helped clean blood from the murder scene, the witness said.
Justice Sims was arrested about an hour after his sister as he left his apartment at 1417 N. Washington St.
He immediately invoked his right to an attorney, police say, as did Wolf and Breanna Sims.
Wolf has several misdemeanor assault convictions and is on probation for felony residential burglary.
Breeanna Sims is on felony probation for second-degree robbery, unlawful imprisonment and first-degree theft for a home-invasion robbery with her mother in November 2009. Her brother was convicted of indecent liberties as a juvenile in 2005.
Human trafficking suspects released 
eagleproducer on April 21 at 6:20 p.m.
Murder preceded by torture?
They must have been watching You Tube videos of our troops in Afghanistan to get such notions.
misjustice on April 21 at 6:56 p.m.
Pretty sick eagleproducer. Blame it on our military instead of blaming it on the sick bunch of low life that doesn’t care about anyone but themselves. It could be they were playing those whacked out video games where you shoot ‘um all up & no one goes to jail. Yeah, that’s a lot of fun, I’m sure.
I may be old but I grew up with having respect for the human race.
The majority of “young” ones today (to me that’s anyone under 42) didn’t have any parent that actually raised them. They were to interested in doing their drugs, having kids on welfare & being dropouts (whether from society or school or whatever you want to call it). What else would we expect of their kids?
Sad situation.
hardwroc on April 21 at 7:07 p.m.
come on Gramma, you forget the other folks, where both parents have to work to pay the rent, and jobs these days expect to OWN your life and think nothing of working people 60 -80 hours a week. Tell us how you raise a family with any sort of continuity when you have to choose, a job or a life. It seems corporate America has a large responsibility for our sad state of families.
misjustice on April 21 at 8:20 p.m.
What a convoluted whacked story to justify murder. This nation is going to hell in a hand basket…
Just sayin’…
nslopeofw on April 21 at 10:04 p.m.
eagleproducer-
Do you hate America? You seem to have a need to insult anything that isnt part of your socialistic dream. I bet if you were to actually read some honest accounts of our brave military folks, instead of your hippy-antiwar garbage, you’d have some respect for those who voluntarily put their lives on the line for this great nation. The thing is, the people in the military volunteer to be there. Just as you dont. Have some respect. You dont have to agree with the war(s), but you should respect those who put their lives on the line for your freedom to hate war. Your comments show no real difference between you and the Koran burning pastor. You have the freedom to think and do these things, but should you just because you can?
These sick puppies are probably on the government teat. They probably will claim to be the victims. If we has a strong justice system, these pieces of garbage would have long ago been in prison. Instead, they were free to kill. One has to ask why that is? Probably because some POS was more worried about their rights, than those of their real victims’.
eagleproducer on April 24 at 10:43 a.m.
nslope: All of your assumptions might have some validity if I weren’t a veteran who served six years of active duty in the all-volunteer military. While I served, commanders in chief didn’t involve our military in wars of choice or commit torture in my name. I would never have served under war criminals. I believe it demonstrates much more courage to resist evil than to cooperate with it.
I think it is naive to believe our national defense policies don’t have a spillover effect upon our population.
GuyMontag on May 05 at 6:47 p.m.
The neck tattoos did it
agirlinidaho on January 03 at 9:16 p.m.
Or the young man perhaps did not have a supportive lifestyle from family that were also not functionable to help him through basic situations that many of us have had during childhood. By no means am i supporting or implying that he was justified in his behavior. However, what many of us do not realize is that learned behaviors are hard to break, especially if this is the life that one has only known. Another perspective is that perhaps the young man was sick and could not get the treatment that he deserved. Before people start judging those who do act upon violence, one should try to understand there are life experiences that are first hand that many should never experience.