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Police murder suspect still on the run in Seattle
South Africa News.Net
Monday 30th November, 2009
Heavily armed police in Seattle raided the house of a suspect in the killing of four police officers on Monday, only to find the man had already gone.
Police had been positioned overnight at the Seattle house where they thought the man had fled to.
They spent hours trying to communicate with him, using loudspeakers, explosions and a robot that was sent into the house.
The suspect, named as Maurice Clemmons, is still on the loose with police hundreds of officers and search dogs deployed around Seattle for any sign of him.
Authorities have put up a $125,000 reward for information leading to Clemmons' arrest, after he allegedly gunned down the officers from the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood in a coffee shop as they were preparing to go on duty.
Clemmons has a long criminal history, which includes a 95 year prison sentence that was commuted by former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago.
His most recent arrest was for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Washington and second-degree rape of a child.
He had posted $150,000 bail.
Authorities have now alleged he killed Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and officers Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and Greg Richards, 42, as they worked on their laptop computers at the coffee shop.
Clemmons is believed to have been in the area of the coffee shop around the time of the shooting.  Email this story to a friend
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