Posted on 12/01/2009 10:43:30 AM PST by llevrok
Maurice Clemmons was shot just above the belly button by a Lakewood police officer during a struggle at the Forza shop.
The wound was stuffed with cotton balls and covered with duct tape, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told The News Tribune.
"I am surprised he survived," Troyer said.
Investigators believe Clemmons' sister and another woman triaged him and help transport him.
Troyer said investigators had information Clemmons was hiding out in the Rainier Valley neighborhood. The Seattle police officer who killed Clemmons "stumbled into him," Troyer said. "He's lucky he's alive."
Investigators were looking into whether Clemmons stole the car that the Seattle police officer found running in the middle of the street.
good. i have heard belly shots are slow and painful.
I thought he died? Is this another Arafat?
WA ping
Sounds like he suffered before he died.
Kinda wish they hadn’t caught him. Chances are he would have died in a few weeks at best. Peritonitis can be a brutally slow killer.
We can only hope.
Where did this guy get 15000 in bail money?
Where did he get his gun?
Who was bankrolling this guy?
Who was the judge that let him out on bail?
We want some answers.
Is there a larger group with an aim of killing more cops?
Or - this was the "public option" of government health care...
I believe I saw a teaser for Seattle area news that suggested there may be a number of arrests to follow. He may have had assistance which would answer some of your questions.
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So is he dead or alive? Captured or loose? Because this story doesn’t say. It does use “triage” incorrectly, though.
You have to think long and hard about people who would aid a man who shot 4 police officers.
They are just as guilty as he. These people will probably be run down and prosecuted, one has to wonder though. suppose he had shot 4 people not police officers, woudld the police be spending so much time running down the people who gave aid to such a person?
$15,000 was his bail? Or was that the 10% required for a bail bondsman?
Eitherway, it seems he was somehow connected to the Nation of Islam.
Dead, shot this AM by an officer.
The police decided that a lead pellet injection was the best way to treat that type of injury.
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Good.
hopefully he was in agony up to the moment the cop blew his brains out.
“Sounds like he suffered before he died.”
we can only hope that is the case
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