Port Townsend: Shooting victim’s daughter seeks protection order

PORT TOWNSEND — The daughter of a man shot to death April 29 is seeking a protection order from her father’s alleged killer, her ex-husband Ryan Neil Sorensen, who is in jail.

Shawna-Kay Smith of Port Townsend has filed a petition requesting the protection order in Jefferson County Superior Court. A temporary protection order has already been issued.

Under the temporary restraining order, Sorensen isn’t allowed to contact or come within 500 yards of Smith or the couple’s two daughters — Samantha Nicole Sorensen, 5, and Sarah Michelle Sorensen, 3.

A hearing to make the order permanent will take place at 11 a.m. May 30 in Superior Court.

Sorensen, of Spanish Fork, Utah, is accused of shooting Ms. Smith’s 62-year-old father, Frank M. “Skip” Smith Jr., to death at his Port Hadlock towing yard.

He is charged with first-degree murder and two counts each of kidnapping and second-degree assault.

Sorensen is in the Jefferson County jail in lieu of $1 million bail.

But in the protection petition filed by Ms. Smith’s attorney, Margaret D. Christopher of Seattle, Ms. Smith says she is afraid that Sorensen will post bail.

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