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Pierce (county, WA) prosecutor gives first details how friends/relatives helped Clemmons escape
The News Tribune (Tacoma WA) ^ | 12/1/09 | Stacey Mulick

Posted on 12/01/2009 1:59:27 PM PST by llevrok

At least a half-dozen friends and relatives of Maurice Clemmons helped him flee the Parkland coffee shop where he killed four police officers, helped him clean up and treat a bullet wound and took him to a house in the Leschi house in Seattle.

Two of them have been arrested for rendering criminal assistance based on a probable cause declaration. They are Eddie Lee Davis and Douglas Edward Davis who live in a residence on 132nd Street South.

According to the declaration of Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, the two were among six who helped Clemmons after the Sunday morning shootings.

Here is how investigators piece together the events after the shooting Sunday morning:

After shooting the officers and struggling with one in the doorway of the coffee shop, Clemmons walked to a white pickup truck driven by a still unnamed man. The truck, parked at a carwash at 112th Street and Steel Street, drove away at a high rate of speed.

­That truck was abandoned nearby and Clemmons later appeared on foot at a residence on 132nd Street South where Rickey Hinton lived. Clemmons had been at the house the night before and had borrowed the keys to the white pickup.

When he returned Sunday he told Hinton he had been shot and that the cops had shot him.

Clemmons woke up Eddie and Douglas Davis. Both told police later that Clemmons had told them he had "taken care of his business" and both said they understood that to mean he had shot or killed police officers. The night before, Clemmons had showed two handguns to the men and said he was going to shoot police.

­Hinton gave the keys to a white Pontiac to Eddie Davis and told him to get Clemmons out of there. While driving northbound, Clemmons gave Douglas a cell phone and asked him to make two phone calls. The three men arrived at a house in Algona-Pacific.

A female relative of Clemmons lives there and once inside Douglas Davis and the relative helped Clemmons clean a gunshot wound to his torso. Clemmons then changed clothes and put his other clothes into a bag.

From that house, Clemmons got into a car driven by the female relative.

Eddie and Douglas Davis got back into the Pontiac. Both cars were driven to the Auburn Super Mall.

­At the Super Mall, the group met up with a third car driven by a female.

All three cars drove to another residence where Clemmons got into the females small white car and left.

­Officers had received information that Clemmons was related to residents of a house in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood. When they arrived they saw a black man on foot near the house and a small white car leaving the area.

They stopped the car and spoke to the driver. She said she was a friend of Clemmons and admitted that she had met him in a parking lot, taken him to her residence. She purchased medical supplies to treat his gunshot wound, did a load of laundry and then drove him to the Leschi house. She said he told her he had killed a police officer or officers in the coffee shop.

The residents of the Leschi house said they had received a call from Clemmons asking if he could come to their house. They initially agreed but after speaking to relatives in Algona-Pacific, they fled the house and drove to a Seattle police precinct and reported the information.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: criminalconspiracy; hatecrime; lakewoodshooting; mauriceclemmons; murderplot; safehouse
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lock them all up / throw away the keys
1 posted on 12/01/2009 1:59:27 PM PST by llevrok
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To: llevrok
But I heard Mike Gallagher today on the radio saying that this was Huckabee’s fault and no one else's.
2 posted on 12/01/2009 2:00:46 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The myth of man made global warming is science fiction.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Of course— and using the same logic, let’s lock up Jefferson, Adams, et al for passing the Constitution, without which Obama would never have been elected!


3 posted on 12/01/2009 2:03:27 PM PST by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: llevrok

sounds like a fairly well organized community.


4 posted on 12/01/2009 2:04:20 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (whitey's over it.)
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To: llevrok

The getaway driver should be charged with four counts of murder, the rest with aiding/abetting and accessory to murder, etc.

Death penalty for the driver, long prison terms for the rest.
Maximum prosecution, pull out all the stops and make an example of them.


5 posted on 12/01/2009 2:05:44 PM PST by Deo volente (Sarah Palin was right. There ARE death panels in the bill.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Dear Fool,

Google up the Legal concept of "Accessory After The Fact". That way you next time you won't sound so frigging dumb.

Just trying to help.

6 posted on 12/01/2009 2:05:59 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: llevrok

Anyone who helped this criminal out should be EXECUTED....they are accesories to murder of four police officers

Of course, the Criminal Rights Fascists will whine about that....but it is time to stop this violent crime. Executed criminals commit no crimes....


7 posted on 12/01/2009 2:07:21 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Al Gore is neither a scientist (Global Warming Fraud) nor an economist (Free Trade, NAFTA))
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To: the invisib1e hand

“organized community” - community organizer, same diff.


8 posted on 12/01/2009 2:09:18 PM PST by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: llevrok

These people simply have no conscience. There’s no other explanation for the violence and brutality that they inflict. Something is missing in their brains.


9 posted on 12/01/2009 2:11:20 PM PST by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: llevrok

Investigate and prosecute every person giving aid to the scum and slap them with a max sentence if convicted, law enforcement has to set an example with them.


10 posted on 12/01/2009 2:12:25 PM PST by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: llevrok

But, but, but these are all just unfortunate victims of whitey and his raaaaacist society!


11 posted on 12/01/2009 2:16:28 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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It’s a hate crime but the media is ignoring that aspect.


12 posted on 12/01/2009 2:19:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The myth of man made global warming is science fiction.)
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To: llevrok

Under the jail. Permanently. All of ‘em. They obviously don’t understand what civil society is all about and it’s too damn late to teach character.

Colonel, USAFR


13 posted on 12/01/2009 2:22:05 PM PST by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: llevrok

What is needed is a hanging tree, a rope and a skittish horse. Rinse repeat.


14 posted on 12/01/2009 2:24:25 PM PST by Pajama Blogger (Pajama Power)
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To: llevrok
Read something yesterday that one of those folks acquainted with the perp told police he had mentioned the day before how he should pay attention to the news cause he was going to shoot some cops...but that fellow did not think enough about it to report it cause it was not unusual to hear things like that from folks.

Translated: Talking about shooting cops is common place in the Black community. I guess Rev. Wright's chickens (incendiary comments) are coming home to roost.

15 posted on 12/01/2009 2:26:11 PM PST by kimoajax (Rack'em & Stack'em)
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I remember a couple of years back the driver of a getaway car got the chair because the actual perp accidently shot someone during a bank robbery. I don’t think WA has the death penalty, correct me if I am wrong.


16 posted on 12/01/2009 2:26:37 PM PST by bjorn14 (Waterboard Obama. See if he knows anything.)
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To: sthguard

I know there must be a rational thought and analogy in there somewhere but I can’t find it.


17 posted on 12/01/2009 2:28:32 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: llevrok

I hope everyone of them falls victim to police street justice.


18 posted on 12/01/2009 2:28:47 PM PST by shaft29 (Just your typical black woman.)
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To: Pajama Blogger

Why scare the poor horse. Start ‘em on the ground and pull them up. Makes ‘em do a little dance.


19 posted on 12/01/2009 2:36:39 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: bjorn14

Yeah, they have a death penalty. It’s not used very often. Can’t remember the last time a cop killer got the death penalty, though.


20 posted on 12/01/2009 2:37:48 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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