2 months ago
SEATTLE (AP) -- A sheriff's spokesman in Washington state says Seattle police have fatally shot the man suspected of gunning down four police officers.
Police: Suspect In Deaths of Officers Not In House
Official: 4 Police Officers Shot Dead in Wash.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says Maurice
Clemmons was shot and killed early Tuesday in a Seattle
neighborhood. Authorities suspected Clemmons of killing the four Lakewood officers at a coffee shop Sunday morning in Parkland, a Tacoma suburb about 35 miles south of Seattle.
Troyer says Seattle police found Clemmons after Pierce County authorities supplied addresses of possible hiding spots.
Police have said they aren't sure what prompted Clemmons to shoot the officers as they did paperwork on their laptops. Clemmons was described as increasingly erratic in the past few months.
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