Suspect in officer slayings wounded, but missing
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December 1, 2009, Tuesday
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POLICE say the suspect in the slayings of four police officers at a coffee shop was not found in the Seattle home in the United States where he was thought to have been holed up.
Negotiators spent the night trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try to prod him from hiding. But when they entered the home, he was not there.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the location of Clemmons, 37, is not known. Troyer also said people who know Clemmons told investigators he had been shot in the torso.
He is suspected of killing the officers at a coffee shop on Sunday morning.
Clemmons has a long criminal history, including a long prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago and a recent arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Washington.
He is said to have gone to the coffee house on Sunday morning and opened fire on the officers, killing Mark Renninger, 39, Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42, as they caught up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts. He fled but authorities believe he might have been wounded by one of his victims.
"We don't know if he's still alive. If he isn't, it's because he succumbed to the wound he received yesterday when he was in the struggle with the police officer that managed to get a shot fired at him before he was killed," Troyer said.
Clemmons is believed to have been in the area of the coffee shop around the time of the shooting, but Troyer declined to say what evidence might link him to the shooting.
Investigators say they know of no reason that Clemmons or anyone else might have had to open fire on the four as they sat working on their laptops.
Negotiators spent the night trying to communicate with Maurice Clemmons using loudspeakers, explosions and even a robot to try to prod him from hiding. But when they entered the home, he was not there.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the location of Clemmons, 37, is not known. Troyer also said people who know Clemmons told investigators he had been shot in the torso.
He is suspected of killing the officers at a coffee shop on Sunday morning.
Clemmons has a long criminal history, including a long prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago and a recent arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Washington.
He is said to have gone to the coffee house on Sunday morning and opened fire on the officers, killing Mark Renninger, 39, Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42, as they caught up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts. He fled but authorities believe he might have been wounded by one of his victims.
"We don't know if he's still alive. If he isn't, it's because he succumbed to the wound he received yesterday when he was in the struggle with the police officer that managed to get a shot fired at him before he was killed," Troyer said.
Clemmons is believed to have been in the area of the coffee shop around the time of the shooting, but Troyer declined to say what evidence might link him to the shooting.
Investigators say they know of no reason that Clemmons or anyone else might have had to open fire on the four as they sat working on their laptops.
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