Seattle Cop Killer Shot And Killed

From the Seattle Post Intelligencer:

A Seattle police patrolman working by himself in the hours before dawn ended a massive and frantic manhunt for alleged cop killer Maurice Clemmons on Tuesday,

The officer shot and killed Clemmons, wanted for gunning down four Lakewood cops, as he fled in a Rainier Valley neighborhood.

"Everything indicates that this is the person we've been looking for," Seattle Police Assistant Chief Jim Pugel told a news conference at the scene about 5:20 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Clemmons was the sole suspect in the slayings of four Lakewood police officers as they sat in a coffee shop Sunday morning.

Investigators said they believed Clemmons -- who had a violent criminal history in Arkansas and Washington -- was aided by a network of friends and family before he was killed at about 2:40 a.m. Tuesday.

Pierce County Sheriff's Det. Ed Troyer said his agency had arrested three people for rendering criminal assistance to Clemmons and had taken a getaway driver into custody.

"We expect to have maybe six or seven people in custody by the day's end," Troyer added. "Some are friends, some are acquaintances, some are partners in crime, some are relatives. Now they're all partners in crime."

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.

Leading to Tuesday morning's incident, police had checked hundreds of tips in the case. On Monday, Seattle police responded again and again -- in the International District, on Beacon Hill, in the U District -- to reports that Clemmons, wounded, armed and desperate, had been seen.

Troyer said multiple police agencies were given addresses of relatives and friends where Clemmons might be hiding.

Clemmons was finally cornered near one of those addresses, in the 4400 block of South Kenyon Street.

Pugel said the shooting of Clemmons began with a Seattle police patrolman spotting an unoccupied vehicle that had been reported stolen Monday evening.

The officer detected movement behind him and got out of his car, Pugel said. He then recognized a man approaching him as matching the description of Clemmons.

The officer said the man ignored orders to stop and show his hands, then ran from the officer.

"He wouldn't stop," Pugel said. "The officer fired several rounds, took the person into custody."

Seattle Fire Department personnel responded. Clemmons was pronounced dead.

Pugel also said Clemmons had a gun belonging to one of the slain officers. Clemmons did not return fire before he was killed, Pugel said.