Cop killer suspect shot dead after massive manhunt in US
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December 2, 2009, Wednesday
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SEATTLE police early yesterday shot and killed a man suspected of gunning down four police officers, a sheriff's spokesman said, a day after the man eluded police who had spent hours trying to coax him out of a house.
Maurice Clemmons was shot to death in a working-class Seattle neighborhood after police tracked him down using possible hiding spots supplied by Pierce County investigators, said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the county sheriff.
Police had surrounded a house in Seattle late on Sunday following a tip Clemmons had been dropped off there. After an all-night siege, a special weapons and tactics police team entered the home on Monday morning and found it empty. But police said Clemmons had been there.
Authorities suspect Clemmons, 37, of killing the four Lakewood officers at a coffee shop on Sunday morning in Parkland, a Tacoma suburb about 55 kilometers south of Seattle.
Police said they aren't sure what prompted Clemmons to shoot the officers as they did paperwork on their laptops at a coffee shop.
Clemmons was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months and had been arrested earlier this year on charges that he punched a sheriff's deputy in the face.
At the scene, dozens of police officers milled around, shaking hands and patting each other on the back after one of the largest manhunts in the region's history.
Clemmons had stayed on the run for nearly two days with help from a network of friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money, police said. Troyer told Fox News police arrested three people overnight on suspicion of rendering criminal assistance.
On Monday, officers detained a sister of Clemmons who they think treated the suspect's gunshot wound.
"We believe she drove him up to Seattle and bandaged him up," Troyer said. Police believe people close to Clemmons have misled officers, and Troyer said anyone helping him could face charges. Clemmons' sister wasn't in custody late Monday.
Authorities said the gunman singled out the officers in the coffee shop and spared employees and other customers. He then fled, but not before he was apparently shot in the torso by one of the dying officers.
Troyer told the Tacoma News-Tribune that Clemmons indicated the night before the shooting "that he was going to shoot police and watch the news."
Authorities in two states were criticized amid revelations that Clemmons was allowed to walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas that landed him a 108-year prison sentence. He was released early after the governor commuted his sentence.
Maurice Clemmons was shot to death in a working-class Seattle neighborhood after police tracked him down using possible hiding spots supplied by Pierce County investigators, said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the county sheriff.
Police had surrounded a house in Seattle late on Sunday following a tip Clemmons had been dropped off there. After an all-night siege, a special weapons and tactics police team entered the home on Monday morning and found it empty. But police said Clemmons had been there.
Authorities suspect Clemmons, 37, of killing the four Lakewood officers at a coffee shop on Sunday morning in Parkland, a Tacoma suburb about 55 kilometers south of Seattle.
Police said they aren't sure what prompted Clemmons to shoot the officers as they did paperwork on their laptops at a coffee shop.
Clemmons was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months and had been arrested earlier this year on charges that he punched a sheriff's deputy in the face.
At the scene, dozens of police officers milled around, shaking hands and patting each other on the back after one of the largest manhunts in the region's history.
Clemmons had stayed on the run for nearly two days with help from a network of friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money, police said. Troyer told Fox News police arrested three people overnight on suspicion of rendering criminal assistance.
On Monday, officers detained a sister of Clemmons who they think treated the suspect's gunshot wound.
"We believe she drove him up to Seattle and bandaged him up," Troyer said. Police believe people close to Clemmons have misled officers, and Troyer said anyone helping him could face charges. Clemmons' sister wasn't in custody late Monday.
Authorities said the gunman singled out the officers in the coffee shop and spared employees and other customers. He then fled, but not before he was apparently shot in the torso by one of the dying officers.
Troyer told the Tacoma News-Tribune that Clemmons indicated the night before the shooting "that he was going to shoot police and watch the news."
Authorities in two states were criticized amid revelations that Clemmons was allowed to walk the streets despite a teenage crime spree in Arkansas that landed him a 108-year prison sentence. He was released early after the governor commuted his sentence.
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