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.
It used to be called First degree murder with malice aforethought i.e. he planned the murder. Hat is not a proper category for legislation and adjudication in a free society. You don’t like hate. I don’t like for people to say things against my religion. Both things are the same. Neither should have laws against it. Emotionalists criminalize feelings and emotions. Reasonable people do not.
It used to be called First degree murder with malice aforethought i.e. he planned the murder. Hat is not a proper category for legislation and adjudication in a free society. You don’t like hate. I don’t like for people to say things against my religion. Both things are the same. Neither should have laws against it. Emotionalists criminalize feelings and emotions. Reasonable people do not.
And adultery used to be a crime and discrimination legal.
Hate Crimes Laws are on the books. There will be no trial, the perp is dead. Call it what it is. Expose the double standard.
There will be trials alright, and hopefully at least one life sentence. I'd go for execution, but as I understand it, Washington does not allow capital punishment for accomplices.
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