Posted on 11/29/2009 7:59:26 PM PST by Steelfish
Four Police Officers Fatally Shot Near Seattle
Authorities call the attack an ambush on the officers, who were meeting in a coffee shop before their shift. At least one returned fire and may have injured the lone gunman. No one else was hurt.
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The four slain officers, from left: Greg Richards, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Mark Renninger. (From the Associated Press / November 29, 2009)
By Kim Murphy November 30, 2009
Four Seattle-area police officers were shot to death Sunday morning in a coffee shop in what officials called a brazen ambush by a lone gunman.
At least one officer apparently fought his way to the coffee shop door and returned fire, possibly wounding the shooter, authorities said. The shooter is likely to seek medical treatment for a gunshot wound, officials said.
The officers, three men and a woman attached to the Lakewood Police Department, were conducting a routine pre-shift briefing over their laptops at the Forza Coffee Shop in Parkland, Wash., near McChord Air Force Base, about 35 miles south of Seattle.
"It was definitely an ambush, target situation. . . . It was not a robbery," said Pierce County Sheriff's Sgt. Ed Troyer, whose department is investigating the killings. "We have our work cut out for us."
The slain officers, who were in uniform and wearing bulletproof vests, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their marked patrol cars were parked outside. They were identified as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswald, 40; and Greg Richards, 42.
Two baristas and several other customers were not injured during the 8:15 a.m. attack. It was not known whether the gunman, described as a black man in his 20s to 30s with a scruffy appearance, wearing a black jacket and jeans...
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Unfortunately, it’s also the nail in the coffins of these fine officers.
Damn shame. And shameful. That creep should have been in jail.
After these appalling and savage murders, Huckabee’s name goes to the top of the RINO list.
Is that what the Romney pics are about?
Besides Sarah Palin, who is left? (right for the job?)
My eyes immediately go to Ted Kennedy in that picture and I think: That’s what he’s doing from his grave, laughing.
What motive?
I was going to ask about the Romney spam too,but I decided there was no point. I think that most of us are informed enough to make up our own minds on Romney. Huckabee was not even in the running for me, though. Huckabee’s collusion with McCain finished him off in my opinion.
thanks, did see that. i will read it.
He already did a few years!
bump
Prayer ping.
I remember that too. I watched the mom be interviewed whose daughter died. Heart wrenching.
Huckabee needs to leave the public arena. Now.
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Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted clemency
to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protestations
of prosecutors.
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Bump
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The four slain officers, from left: Greg Richards, Tina Griswold,
Ronald Owens and Mark Renninger.
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Rest in peace...
Is it true that Huckabee reduced the alleged killer's sentence??..............if true.....................WHY?
BREAKING!!!!!
Seattle SWAT surround Seattle House. Talk of evacuating area
LIVE POLICE SCANNER HERE:
http://www.komonews.com/news/content/scanner
“Huckabee needs to leave the public arena. Now.”
Agreed!
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