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  • Officer who shot Clemmons is hailed as a 'hero'

    12/02/2009 1:43:53 AM PST · by Cindy · 31 replies · 1,166+ views
    SEATTLEPI.com - SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^ | Last updated Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 6:37 p.m. PT | By VANESSA HO and CASEY MCNERTHNEY
    SNIPPET: "Seattle police officer Benjamin L. Kelly is being hailed as a hero for his actions early Tuesday morning, in which he single-handedly shot and killed Maurice Clemmons, the man wanted in Sunday's killings of four Pierce County officers. After an intense, two-day manhunt for Clemmons, Kelly had stopped to check out a stolen car parked on the side of a road in Rainier Valley. Clemmons was outside the car. Kelly recognized him from police bulletins and ordered him to put up his hands, police said. When he refused, Kelly shot Clemmons." SNIPPET: "The pistol found on Clemmons matched the...