On the afternoon of Sept. 2, Fred Binschus lay in the woods near his home on Silver Creek Drive in Alger, suffering from two gunshot wounds after escaping from an assailant. Then he heard his wife, Julie Binschus, entering their driveway in her car.

He could hear her screaming, then came several gunshots. She would be found dead in her car.

By early evening, the scale of that day’s killing would become clear. There were six dead, including Skagit County Sheriff’s Deputy Anne Jackson, and four wounded. By then, too, Isaac L. Zamora, 28, would be in custody on suspicion of the slayings.

The day’s grisly events are set forth in an arrest warrant declaration by Snohomish County Sheriff’s Detective Patrick VanderWeyst. The document was unsealed today on the order of Skagit County District Court Presiding Judge David Svaren.

The declaration was sealed Friday by District Court Judge Warren Gilbert at the request of Skagit County Prosecutor Rich Weyrich when Zamora appeared in court to hear himself charged with six counts of first degree murder and four counts of first degree assault.

The Skagit Valley Herald and other news media had questioned the sealing order, and Svaren unsealed it today without comment.

Skagit County deputies Anne Jackson and Terry Esskew arrived at the home of Dennise Zamora, at 19887 Silver Creek Drive on the afternoon of Sept. 2. Dennise Zamora had called 911 at 2:19 p.m. to report that her son, Isaac Zamora, had gone into neighbors’ houses uninvited.

The detective’s declaration says that Jackson then went by herself at about 3:02 p.m. to the home of Chester Rose at 19342 Bridle Place. Rose had earlier called 911 to report a trespass. When Jackson hadn’t been heard from by 3:59 p.m., dispatchers tried to reach her without success. Another deputy was dispatched to check on her.

The declaration does not indicate where Esskew went after the initial call.

But calls began pouring into the 911 center from the Silver Creek neighborhood.

A neighbor of the Binschus’ reported that Fred Binschus had been shot in the back and the leg. Another caller reported finding the bodies of two construction workers at her home. They would be identified as David Radcliffe and Greg Gillum.

Officers went to the Rose home and found Deputy Jackson on the ground just outside and the body of Chester Rose inside. Both had been shot to death.

“It appeared that upon walking up to the residence (Deputy) Jackson was fired upon and returned fire,” the declaration says.

Jackson’s gun was later found nearby in the grass.

The two weapons used in the slayings and assaults were reported taken from a home two properties away from the Rose home. One was a bolt-action rifle, the other a handgun.

Shortly after 4 p.m., Richard Treston, another Silver Creek resident, reported he’d been stabbed by Isaac Zamora.

As officers continued trying to piece together what had happened in the neighborhood, a clerk at a gas station in Alger reported that a motorcyclist had been shot.  A call came in to 911 from a traveler on Interstate 5 who reported seeing a car go off the road and described a pickup that matched the description of the one the suspect had earlier been seen driving.

Officers located the vehicle that had gone off the highway into the median and found the body of the driver, Leroy Lange, 64, of Methow.

By then, a full police pursuit of the pickup was under way with speeds around 90 mph. State Patrol Trooper Troy Giddings, driving an unmarked pickup truck, pulled beside the suspect’s vehicle and was shot in the arm. The trooper backed off and drove himself to United General Hospital for treatment.

The pursuit ended in the parking lot of the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office in downtown Mount Vernon with the arrest of Isaac Zamora.

While being questioned by police, Zamora, according to VanderWeyst’s declaration, proclaimed that God told him what to do and told him to kill evil. But, the declaration says, Zamora also at one point exclaimed, “God, why did I do it?”

The detective’s declaration also told of another near-tragedy on Interstate 5. A Bellingham couple were driving a distance between the Lange vehicle when a bullet was fired at them. The bullet passed through the driver side and the passenger side windows, narrowly missing the couple.