Police surround Seattle home where person of interest in police shooting may be hiding

Seattle Times ^ | Nov 29, 2009 | ST staff

[Jack Black]

Police surround Seattle home where person of interest in police shooting may be hiding A SWAT team and police negotiators surrounded a Leschi home in Seattle where the man sought for questioning in the Lakewood police shooting may be hiding. By Seattle Times staff A SWAT team and police negotiators surrounded a Leschi home in Seattle where the man sought for questioning in the Lakewood police shooting may be hiding. Police responded to the home at East Yesler Way and 32nd Avenue South where police stopped a woman who was leaving the home. She told them Maurice Clemmons was on the property and bleeding, according to a law enforcement source. The woman told police that someone had dropped Clemmons off at the home. The source also said police had received tips about two other properties they needed to search, in Queen Anne and Renton. At 8:44 p.m., Seattle police received information that the person of interest may be in a Leschi home, according to Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel. Police are now trying to confirm the identity of the person inside. Police blocked off the street at East Yesler and 30th Avenue South. Police are telling residents to stay indoors and keep their doors locked.

[cherry]

the pub was definately robbed his first time around against the dim.....it all came down to the inner city Seattle districts and their funny business....

however, the REAL story is that these two faced off again last November....and the dim idiot who lied about our state deficit and promisied NOT to raise taxes won handily....afterwards we find out that we're 8 billion in the hole and taxes have been raised and will be raised more....

the idiocy of the American voter....what can you do...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I have 3:14 in the pool.
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Hey there,,,

Long time no see-um,,,

Mark me down for 06:00,,,

I think the LEO’s will just let him bleed-out till then,,,

No reason not to...

[cherry]

okay for those listening on the scanner, someone just came on about the "situation" or "event" reminding everyone to stay in position until its over...and the one guy thought it might go to 0700.....

that says to me, if they are talking about the swat team stakeout....that they are in contact with him, or see him, or know that he is fading fast etc......maybe they sent for his mother...

[amom]

Thanks. 7am? Hummm

[onyx]

UGH. I guess voters will believe whatever they want to believe and the facts and truth be damned. UGH, UGH, UGH.

[onyx]

Fox ‘n Friends coming on. I want to hear their report.

[amom]

“...Shortly before 2 a.m., police gave whoever was in the house an ultimatum to come out in 20 minute, but got no response in that time.

Then there was a series of flash-bangs, distraction devices which can temporarily blind a suspect, followed by what appeared to be tear gas...”

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010386387_webleschihome29m.html

Any of you scanner folks hear anything about this?

[amom]

Fox ‘n Friends coming on. I want to hear their report.

Share if you're so inclined.

[cherry]

no....but I didn’t get on the scanner til after 2 I think.....

[amom]

OK. Thanks

[onyx]

Fox:

Now calling him a suspect, no longer just a person of interest.

He *is* inside the house. The police have the house surrounded. They are in hour 7 of the stand off.

They are communicating LOUDLY: meaning they are barking orders at him I think.

[amom]

Excellent! Thanks for the updates.

[onyx]

Oh, and they KNOW he is wounded. They just don;t know to what degree or exactly where on his body he’s wounded.

I hope he bleeds out.

[ArmstedFragg]

Yeah, that was about the SWAT incident. It’s hard to read much of anything into it. Could be they have no contact, but they’re waiting for daylight, could be they have contact and they’re waiting for him to tire.

The countervailing factor, and it’s not a big one, but you sometimes see it even in a situation like this, is that someone on the administrative level is adding up overtime and getting antsy.

As I commented several hours ago, they’ll move when they’re ready and have the maximum tactical advantage, nobody wants to add to the list of dead heros.

[amom]

Early this morning, Seattle police entered a trailer in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood where the man being sought in the shootings of four Lakewood police officers was believed to be hiding.

What they found wasn’t immediately known.

A short time before, they had issued an ultimatum for the man, Maurice Clemmons, to come out, but got no response.

That was followed by a series of flash-bangs, distraction devices which can temporarily blind a suspect. Discharges of what appeared to be tear gas followed.

What happened next wasn’t immediately available.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010386387_webleschihome29m.html

[onyx]

Flash-bangs! I hope he had his eyes WIDE OPEN!

Hour 7 of the stand off. Time is on the side of the police. He is completely surrounded. Let him bleed out.

[ArmstedFragg]

Yep. we heard they were PA ing, then launching gas grenades. Flash-bangs is, I think, coming from some reporter’s imagination. Nothing to indicate to me whether they have contact or not, though you wouldn’t PA if you still had contact.

[mdel747]

I think they will wait until the sun comes up ,
that way they don't have to make entry in the dark , they will be able to see better ,,

better to be safe

[onyx]

I replayed the Fox report. It said, police were using loudspeakers and explosives. Perhaps flash bangs qualify as explosives? I really have no idea.

[amom]

Thanks for the info and clarification. Media doing what media does best...little bits of fact and a ton of their own created images.