A 15-year-old Vancouver girl arrested Wednesday in connection with a Camas home-invasion robbery is also accused of shooting a Beaverton, Ore., man she met on a “sugar daddy” dating site.
Raelyn G. Domingo is being held at the Clark County Juvenile Justice Center on a Washington County, Ore., arrest warrant for first-degree robbery and first-degree assault, both Measure 11 crimes in Oregon that carry mandatory minimum sentences of 7½ years in prison.
She is also being held on allegations of being an accomplice to robbery in connection with the Camas case.
Washington County sheriff’s deputies responded about 1:50 p.m. May 11 to a shooting at a residence in the 8600 block of Southwest Muledeer Drive in Beaverton’s Sexton Mountain neighborhood, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Washington County Circuit Court.
Deputies found 56-year-old Thomas Licata suffering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen. He was transported by ambulance to Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, where he underwent emergency surgery to repair punctured intestines, the affidavit states.
He has since been treated and released, according to a hospital spokesperson.
In an interview with detectives May 12, Licata said that a woman named “Samantha” — whom he had met on the website Seeking Arrangement: Sugar Daddy Dating — shot him. He had met up with her in person after she was dropped off at a Beaverton grocery store, he said, and took her to his house, court records say.
Once inside, she asked him for money, and he paid her $260. At one point, she asked to use Licata’s rest room. When she emerged, she pulled out a firearm and shot Licata once while he was seated at a computer desk. The bullet entered the left side of his stomach and exited his right buttock, according to court documents.
After she shot him, she demanded to know where the rest of his money was. He told her that’s all he had, so she left.
Investigators traced a phone number on Licata’s phone to a number located in Vancouver. And Licata provided them with a print out of the suspect’s online dating profile, the affidavit states.
Washington County sheriff’s detectives later learned that Camas police were looking for a home-invasion robbery suspect, identified as Domingo, with a similar physical description as the shooting suspect. They compared photos from the dating profile with Domingo’s Facebook page and school photos and determined she was the same person, according to court records.
Domingo was arrested Wednesday afternoon during a traffic stop in the area of Northeast 29th Drive and Northeast 187th Avenue in Vancouver, along with three other suspects in the Camas robbery case. She was taken into custody by officers with the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, Camas and Vancouver Police Departments, and Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
Oregon will seek her extradition from Washington.
In the meantime, Domingo is due back in Clark County juvenile court Tuesday to be arraigned in the Camas robbery case.
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