Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times, McClatchy
SEATTLE — Maurice Clemmons, the suspect wanted in slaying of four Lakewood, Wash., police officers, was shot and killed in Seattle early Tuesday morning. Clemmons was standing outside a building when he was confronted by officers. He challenged the officers and was shot around 2:40 a.m. Clemmons has been the focus of a manhunt since Sunday morning when he is accused of killing four Lakewood police officers in a coffee shop. Police have said Clemmons received help since the Sunday morning shooting from friends and family who gave him places to stay, medical aid, rides and money. Officers detained a sister of Clemmons who they think treated the 37-year-old suspect’s earlier gunshot wound from the Sunday incident. Authorities said the gunman singled out the Lakewood officers and spared employees and other customers at the coffee shop in Parkland, a Tacoma, Wash., suburb about 55 kilometres south of Seattle. He then fled, but not before he was apparently shot in the torso by one of the dying officers.
Killed were Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42.
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