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I absolutely have the urge to cry right now....
4 cops were murdered this morning while they were having coffee in a coffee shop--in Parkland, Washington. People---all these cops were doing was drinking coffee!!!
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4 police officers killed in Wash. coffee shop
Sheriff's official says at least one gunman walked in and opened fire
breaking news
msnbc.com news services
updated 7 minutes ago
PARKLAND, Wash. - A gunman walked into a coffee shop and shot and killed four police officers Sunday morning in what sheriff's officials described as an "ambush."
The officers were sitting in the cafe at a strip mall near the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood with their laptop computers, preparing for their day shifts, when a gunman came in and opened fire, Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
"This was a targeted, selected ambush," Troyer said, adding that customers and baristas were in the Forza Coffee shop at the time but no one else was shot at or injured.
Authorities scoured the area for the gunman, who is believed to have fled on foot or by car. Nearby McChord Air Force Base was put on alert.
"We are in the process of searching multiple locations," Troyer said.
There was no specific advance threat against the officers, who all worked for law-enforcement agencies in the county, Troyer said.
He also said there was no known link between the Pierce County officer slayings and the Oct. 31 fatal shooting of a Seattle police officer who was ambushed as he sat in a parked patrol car on a Seattle street. Christopher John Monfort is charged with aggravated first-degree murder in that shooting.
A $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to those responsible.
Brad Carpenter, the founder of Forza Coffee, told NBC News that all his employees were accounted for. A retired police officer himself, Carpenter started Forza in 2002 and now has 21 stores, primarily in the Tacoma area.
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4 police officers killed in Wash. coffee shop
Sheriff's official says at least one gunman walked in and opened fire
breaking news
msnbc.com news services
updated 7 minutes ago
PARKLAND, Wash. - A gunman walked into a coffee shop and shot and killed four police officers Sunday morning in what sheriff's officials described as an "ambush."
The officers were sitting in the cafe at a strip mall near the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood with their laptop computers, preparing for their day shifts, when a gunman came in and opened fire, Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
"This was a targeted, selected ambush," Troyer said, adding that customers and baristas were in the Forza Coffee shop at the time but no one else was shot at or injured.
Authorities scoured the area for the gunman, who is believed to have fled on foot or by car. Nearby McChord Air Force Base was put on alert.
"We are in the process of searching multiple locations," Troyer said.
There was no specific advance threat against the officers, who all worked for law-enforcement agencies in the county, Troyer said.
He also said there was no known link between the Pierce County officer slayings and the Oct. 31 fatal shooting of a Seattle police officer who was ambushed as he sat in a parked patrol car on a Seattle street. Christopher John Monfort is charged with aggravated first-degree murder in that shooting.
A $10,000 reward was being offered for information leading to those responsible.
Brad Carpenter, the founder of Forza Coffee, told NBC News that all his employees were accounted for. A retired police officer himself, Carpenter started Forza in 2002 and now has 21 stores, primarily in the Tacoma area.
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Permalink Reply by HAVE_A_HEART on
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And Kitty--would u believe there are people who believe we have no use for the capital punishment in our law and order?
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Permalink Reply by darroll on
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This is awful.
About a month ago another cop was killed ambush style in Seattle.
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They are talking like it is the same guy who did this too.
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Leave it to the media to get the story right!
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Permalink Reply by stillgoing on
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Read the story closer, they got it right. It says no link and the other accused is known to them and charged with aggravated assault.
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Permalink Reply by Red One on
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The Seattle Cop killer is in the hospital paralyzed. The incident this morning is very close to home for me.
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Permalink Reply by larry kremis on
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My heart sank when I heard this on the evening news.
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Permalink Reply by Bull on
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_officers_shot
PARKLAND, Wash. – A man with an extensive criminal past — whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago — was being sought Sunday as a "person of interest" in a deadly ambush on four police officers who were gunned down inside a coffee shop.
Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told reporters that Maurice Clemmons, 37, was one of several people investigators want to talk to and that he could not be called a suspect at this point.
In a news release, the sheriff's office said Clemmons has an extensive violent criminal history from Arkansas, including aggravated robbery and theft. Clemmons also recently was arrested and charged in Pierce County in Washington state for third-degree assault on a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child.
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Permalink Reply by TeeBubbaDee on
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I try to post something on the "Thankful" thread at least a couple times a week. But, stories like this leave me saddened, bewildered, and confused. Yes, I am still thankful for many things in my life. But, sometimes I feel like this world is going to hell in a hand basket.
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