Support Betsy Everett - Domestic Violence Recovery

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Support Betsy Everett - Domestic Violence Recovery

So I’ve just been quiet not saying anything about this to anyone.  I’ve been laying low just trying to heal up, but it’s time to speak up now and I seriously need people’s help and support.


On June 13, 2020 my ex-boyfriend picked me up at my home.  He was borrowing my car so he picked me up on my car.  We went and got a hotel Room because I had a restraining order on him from an incident that happened in January. He held me down in my bed and pulled a knife on me backon January 22, 202.  When he finally left my house I called the cops and he got arrested.  He got out of jail , kept stalking  me.  He will wait outside of the convenient store by my house because he knew I always walk there. The owner of the store said that not even one month after he got out of jail he was already seeing him outside of the store.  I ran into him in front of the store in April and we got back together. He knew all the details of my life. He knew  who had been to my house.  He could describe the cars that were parked outside my house and everything. He said he would walk past the townhome apartment  complex as well and watch my home from a distance.     


After we arrived at the hotel, we  went got some food and then we came back and started arguing. I just wanted to go home and he wouldn’t let me go. So he said get in the car let’s go to my house in Marysville.  


We parked in front of his house. He went inside (I’m not allowed in because of his daughter) and I got in the back seat.  He entered the back of the car and sat down next to.  He was holding two knives in his hands which he grabbed from inside the house.  He started stabbing me with the knives.  First in my left hand,  then all over my left ear, all down my jaw line, on my shoulder, and the back of my arm.  I was screaming for help.  He was on top of me stabbing me.  Then his neighbor came up to the car and shines a flashlight in.  He said “is everything OK?” And he goes “yeah it’s fine leave”. It was his landlord and back yard neighbor (redacted). He said are you sure there’s a lot of blood in there? The whole time I’m screaming help help help and this guy does nothing he doesn’t call the cops nothing he just leaves me there.  


So my ex starts driving back to the hotel. He put the child locks on the windows he grabbed my cell phone so I couldn’t call anyone and he reclined the front seats back so I couldn’t get out or move.  He trapped me in the back of the car bleeding out for several hours. We drove around for a while as well as stayed in different parking lots.  The whole time Screaming at me telling me that I was the love of his life. But not anymore he was done and he was going to kill me and then come back and  kill my kids. He was threatening to kill me he was saying he was going to dump my body off in the reservation.  The whole time when I could talk I was begging for him to let me live and  telling him I have kids.   I’m a single mom.  He said he didn’t care.  After he killed me he was going to come back and kill my kids.  . I was so weak and lost so much blood.  He stopped at 7-Eleven because I was always asking for water. We sat there in the parking lot.  He didn’t want to get out and get me water because he didn’t trust me.  He didn’t want me to escape out of the car..  I found some pepper spray in the back so I pepper sprayed him. But I also accidentally pepper sprayed myself.. He drop the knife and I tried to grab it with my left hand but that was the hand that that he had stabbed so  I couldn’t grip anything. So he grab the knife out of my hand and stabbed me in the back of my left breast. When he did that I thought I was going to die.  Before that I was in a lot of pain, but I could still breathe. After that I couldn’t lay down I couldn’t sit upright I couldn’t breathe. He punctured my left lung when he stabbed me there.  It was terrible.  The worst pain of my life.  I really thought I was going to die that night.


I was finally able to convince him to drop me off at the Swedish ER in Edmonds.  He  made me make up a story of what happened to me, because he didn’t want to go back to jail. He told me to tell them that I was found like this on 99 and I was mugged and someone brought me to the hospital. He said if I told on him that he was going to kill me and come back and kill my kids.  So he dropped me  off in front of Swedish ER in Edmonds and  drove off. Right after he drove off he got arrested. He was on camera dropping me off in my car.  I almost collapsed walking inti Swedish and just started screaming help help me. I got surrounded by cops by nurses. My white dress was completely red with blood.  My hair was soaked in blood. It was full of blood clots and it was all matted in my own blood.  I will post pictures as soon as I get them released for public disclosure from the Snohomish County superior Court. I look like someone literally out of a horror movie.. I was in so much pain I must have list over a pint of blood.  The doctors and nurses immediately started cleaning my wounds and sewing me up. I couldn’t lay down I was uncomfortable because I couldn’t breathe. They had to rush me to the trauma unit in Everett to monitor my lung that had a hole in it.  


Also, my children were woken up at 4:00 AM by police officers saying their mother was in the ER and telling them what happened.


I stayed in Everett for three days while I healed and they monitored my lung. When they’re doing x-rays at the ER in Swedish they saw that there was air around my left long so they wanted to make sure I’d be OK.  I went home from there, but another serious complication happen.    I had to go back to the hospital because I was drooling out of the side of my face. He cut my salivary ducts.  It wasn’t just a little bit of drawl either that was coming out of my face. It was pouring out of my face to where I had to keep a towel on the side of my face at all times.   It was very bad every time I ate. I had to go back to Swedish and talk to specialists and they told me to go to Harborview ER immediately.  I will need to have surgery and the only people qualified to do that surgery were the UW doctors.  So I checked in and stayed there for another three or four days. I got my surgery and then I had to recover.  I came home and my face was still leaking. I had to go back to the hospital again and get more Botox there so that they could get in the nerve, but it still didn’t stop leaking. It took several weeks after that for my face to finally stop leaking saliva.  .The hole in my lungs took several weeks to close up. I couldn’t even lay down on my back I had to sleep sitting up I was in so much pain. My whole left side was in excruciating pain and still is.   I couldn’t use my hand for the longest time because that was the deepest stab.  That stab wound went all the way down to the bone.  I Couldn’t even open a can or anything like that. My hand was in so much pain. I couldn’t lift anything or use my arms because he stab me on there.. My face and ears are still numb.   My ear is sliced up I can’t smile because he cut the nerves in my face. I had torn ligaments in my rotator cup. I’m still going to physical therapy for this. I’ve been in and out of the hospital many times because of this.  I’m still suffering from this physically, mentally, and emotionally.


So I went to trial on Thursday, November 12. They had me testify first so I could get it over with. The lawyer had no plan. They never gave me a phone call this whole time. I met with them once for a pre-trial prep. And I did a video interview with them because the defense interviewed me. Other than that no phone calls only communication is email.  I will try to call or email them and they were very unresponsive.  


When I went to testify I walked into the court room and my ex winked at me twice as soon as he saw me. Then he sat there and glared at me the whole time I was talking trying to intimidate me.  I glared at him back. I was questioned, then  I went home and I didn’t hear anything about the rest of my trail from my lawyers at all. No communication whatsoever until the jury deliberated and they come back.  The charges he was facing were: Assault 1, Kidnapping, Unlawful Imprisonment, and Violation of a Restraining order.  The advocate Kameon tells me he’s found not guilty of Assault 1 and kidnapping.  He was found guilty of Unlawful Imprisonment and Violation of a restraining order.  She tells me he’s going to be sentenced for eight months but could get out the day of the sentencing because the defense is going to ask for time served.


The prosecuting attorney (redacted) and (redacted) said he’ll be out probably after the sentencing.  


I’m not one to ask for help. I love to work. But I need money. I haven’t been able to work for a couple of months.  I am back working now, but I’m not physically able to take in the workload that I used to so my income has taken a huge hit because of this.  I need help legally. I need legal representation.  This  isn’t fair. He needs to be held accountable for his actions. They are just going to let him off with no jail time as soon as the trial ends.  I should be able to walk the streets safe and my children as well.  


There are also 2 more charges that he’s facing.  If I could get a real lawyer for those cases, it would help.  Hopefully he can do some jail time for those other charges. If he could’ve at least been punished for what he did to me I would’ve felt better. But this is just killing me.  Please pray for my mental health.


Also, The cops have been holding my car since June 13 as crime scene evidence. They will not release it to me because it is saturated in my own blood. They will not pay for it to get reupholstered because it’s too gross to clean.  They said it needs to be reupholstered.. It’s been sitting in the parking lot closed up with my dried blood for months.  If I hadn’t have bought another car right before this happened I would’ve really been screwed.. I need money to fix my car when I get it back. 


And lastly, I  need money to move.  If he does get released on December 14th I can’t stay here.  I’m scared he’s going to come back and kill me and my family so I don’t want to take that chance.  After everything I’ve been through and I can’t even get peace of mind.  They’re just gonna give the defense everything they ask for.


Help me you guys we need to stop the violence this is ridiculous.  My life, my kids life and our future depends on this. I am scared of this guy and I don’t want him to walk the streets. He’s going to be find someone else to do this to you. This should not go on punished.

                           

The pictures that I have were taken a couple weeks after I got stabbed.  When I get the evidence from Snohomish county courts I will post those.  The pics and videos are EXTREMELY, bloody and graphic so don’t view them if you have a weak stomach.

Organizer and beneficiary

Gracie Popick
Organizer
Lynnwood, WA
Betsy Everett
Beneficiary

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