Four people were stabbed and killed at a home where an elderly woman had tried to obtain a domestic violence protective order against her son. Washington state police responded to a report that a 32-year-old man was violating a protective order on Tuesday when they realized the order had never been served, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Office.The woman said her son was suffering from 'grandiosity, auditory hallucinations, and command hallucinations.' They rushed to serve the order against him, but as they were on the way, other calls came in about a man stabbing people at the same address near Tacoma. When they arrived, they found that he had allegedly stabbed four people, who later died.Police then shot and killed the man. He was declared dead at the scene.KING-TV reported that people had been stabbed in the back yard of the home as well as in the front street.Records show that the woman at the address had sought a protective order against her son on the basis that he had mental health and substance abuse issues, and had pushed her. He also made a threat to her after saying her "grave has been already dug up."The woman wrote that he had been doing "witchcraft/occult behavior and doing rituals" at her home, as well as "damaging personal belongings" and hurting her cat."I am an elderly disabled woman, and he is taking advantage of me and my health," she added.The son did not appear before court, and she was granted the protective order, which restricted him from being within 1,000 feet of her and ordered him to comply with a mental health plan. However, he wasn't served the order, and WDIV-TV reported that it was unclear why he wasn't served.The woman said her son was suffering from "grandiosity, auditory hallucinations, and command hallucinations," which were worsening.RELATED: 'Sadistic' PA man sexually assaulted and cut 13-year-old girl at California motel after grooming her on Discord, feds say Authorities have not yet released the names of the people killed or of the man killed by deputies. A neighbor in the area described what he witnessed."All of a sudden, I just heard, like, a series of gunshots. You could really hear it echoing through the trees," Chris Cardenas said.He said he saw ambulances and dozens of police cars at the scene of the crime, which he described as tragic.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

President Donald Trump had a successful State of the Union address on Wednesday, despite the handful of protesters who showed up to register their disfavor with his policies.The crowd was so small that the Republican National Committee posted video to social media to deride the lack of effort by anti-Trump forces.'Someone forgot to send out some money and buses in order to have a turnout.'The RNC reposted a news video from Brecca Stoll of the Daily Wire, who was reporting from Washington, D.C., outside of Congress where Trump was speaking."What is the crowd like? Give us a breakdown. What's the average attendee? I just wanna know who goes to one of these things. What's it looking like?" Cabot Phillips asked."So, when you say, 'Who goes to these types of things,' not many. There's probably 75 people in this crowd, and I would say 35 of them are reporters," Stoll responded."Oh!" he said, surprised."We've seen it in Minneapolis, we've seen it with protests — right when it starts at 9 p.m., they're able to get these droves of people," she added. "But as of right now, it's a pretty slim turnout."The video was reposted by the official RNC account."Democrats' State of the Union boycotts are going well," the RNC wrote, with a laughing emoji.Others pounced to pile onto the protesters."Wow, 75 protesters? Truly an overwhelming sea of resistance. Half of them probably brought their own lighting," one response read."Gee, someone forgot to send out some money and buses in order to have a turnout," another user replied."Well this should show Democrats they have no support. Sadly they won't pay attention. They are to [sic] caught up in their own vanity," another said.RELATED: Praise rolls in for high school suspending hundreds of students over anti-ICE walkout: 'Adults are taking charge' Stoll also interviewed several students at George Washington University to ask them if the president had done well or poorly in his State of the Union address. All of those included in the video said he did very poorly.None of them realized she was asking their advice a day before the president made this address to Congress.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A major philosophical shift is under way inside the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division — and much of it is thanks to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.Dhillon tells BlazeTV hosts Christopher Rufo and Jonathan “Lomez” Keeperman on “Rufo & Lomez” how she’s moving the agency away from diversity, equity, and inclusion-driven enforcement and toward a return to colorblind equality under the law.“You’re bringing a totally different theory of civil rights law to the Department of Justice,” Rufo tells Dhillon. “This can’t be easy.”“It is a very daunting task and, frankly, when I raised my hand in response to the president’s request to do this job, I knew it was going to be one of the more difficult jobs here in the DOJ because historically the Civil Rights Division has been a place that doesn’t really change very much from administration to administration,” Dhillon says.The reason, Dhillon explains, is that “the lawyers who choose to make their careers doing civil rights work typically, historically, have been from a leftist perspective.”“And that isn’t necessarily bad. I mean, there was a point in time in our country when we passed a lot of these civil rights laws in the 1960s, where we had rampant discrimination against African-Americans and other people and even against women to a degree,” she tells Rufo and Lomez.“But way past the time that many of these historical ills have been corrected by our society, with or without the intervention of the Civil Rights Division, people have viewed it as their mission to continue to push the boundaries further and further out to the left,” she says.This has posed one of the biggest issues for Dhillon in her war against DEI.“The truism from the Reagan era is that personnel is policy. And so one of the biggest challenges we had here was, how are we going to implement the president’s agenda with personnel who don’t want to do that,” she explains.“I actually had ... a relatively smooth transition into our mission because early on ... I issued memos to all the different sections here in the Civil Rights Division ... letting them know that we are going to be changing our focus here to implementing the president’s agenda, consistent with the civil rights statutes in the Constitution,” she continues.“And that simple step, sometimes just one or two paragraphs of a memo to a few dozen lawyers, caused more than half of them to quit right away,” she adds.Then, when an early retirement program at the DOJ was implemented, another several dozen took advantage of the program and quit.“We were down about two-thirds of the manpower here in the Civil Rights Division. And so, then the challenge became how to do the big job of rightsizing our civil rights agenda and making it consistent with the president’s agenda,” she explains.While she admits that it was difficult at the outset, she’s “happy to say that we’ve gotten past all of that.”“We’ve hired a bunch of great people, young and old, here in the Civil Rights Division, who are very willing to work with us in doing the work that you’ve seen in the headlines,” she adds.Want more from Rufo & Lomez?To enjoy more of the news through the anthropological lens of Christopher Rufo and Lomez, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.