Father Says He Didn’t Toss Children Out Window ‘I Love My Children To Death,’ Says Man Charged With Attempted Murder

A father facing attempted murder and assault charges says he never threw his young children out of a third-floor window and doesn’t know who did.

“Man, I love my children to death,” Walter White said “If my kids would have fallen out the window, I would have jumped after them.

“I would never try to hurt no child.”

During an interview Thursday in a visiting room at the Pierce County Jail, White said he didn’t know who tossed Sir Rell, 1, and Semaj, 2, through the master bedroom window.

“That’s a mystery I’m trying to figure out,” he said. “Somebody out there knows the truth.”

White, 28, a muscular man with his wife’s nickname, Speen, tattooed on his right forearm, said he would never knowingly hurt his children.

Police say that when officers confronted White on a domestic violence call early Tuesday morning, he quickly entered the bedroom, shut the door and emerged seconds later. An officer then saw the children nearly 24 feet below. Witnesses said they had been thrown out the window, one by one, landing on the hood of a car.

The little boy is in a foster home after being treated for bruises at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. His older sister was in critical condition with internal injuries, but doctors say she should recover fully.

White, whose wife, Sabrina, said he attacked her with a hammer, is charged with two counts of attempted murder and one of assault. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.

She would not comment on his remarks during the interview, in which he was asked about her statement in an earlier interview that he should be executed for what happened to their children.

“My own wife said I deserve the electric chair?” White asked. “She didn’t say that. Somebody put that in her head. Her mind is manipulated right now.”

He said the couple met at a party about five years ago in Minneapolis.

“Sabrina, she’s a good woman,” he said. “But she’s got real nasty ways.”

She told police he attacked her during an argument that erupted after she returned from a trip to the store and found he had given the children a taste of beer. In interviews, she said her husband had become increasingly abusive at times when he was drunk.

White said the argument involved crack cocaine and a stranger his wife allowed to stay in the family’s apartment.

“He offered her crack to stay there,” White said. “He was the reason this happened. I went off.”

White said the young family left Minneapolis last fall after his wife’s problems became too much for her family to bear. He said a welfare agency gave them a bus ticket to Seattle, although they knew no one there.

“It was like a fresh start,” White said. “We didn’t have no money, no cigarettes, nothing.”

After some time in a shelter, the Whites headed to Tacoma because they heard the rent there was lower. After a brief stay in Salvation Army shelter, they moved into an apartment but were evicted in a week.

White said a woman with whom he’d started an affair at the shelter took the family in, but on Dec. 18 he got into a fight with both women and three men and was jailed on charges of domestic violence, malicious mischief and resisting arrest. He was released Jan. 17, 10 days before the episode that landed him back in jail.