Officers Slain in Seattle — UPDATE: Suspect Not in Home

UPDATE (9:45 a.m.):  Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says that the sus­pect was not in the home they surrounded…More as the story develops.

Four police offi­cers from the Seat­tle sub­urb of Lake­wood were slain Sun­day when they were attacked unpro­voked at a local cof­fee shop.  The four offi­cers are:

Sergeant Mark Ren­ninger, 39, with 13 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a wife and three children.

Offi­cer Ronald Owens, 37, with 12 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a for­mer wife and a daughter.

Offi­cer Tina Gris­wold, 40, with 14 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.   She is sur­vived by her hus­band and two children.

Offi­cer Greg Richards, 42, with 8 years of law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence.  He is sur­vived by a wife and three children.

Michelle Malkin has been cov­er­ing this story exten­sively, and so has The Other McCain.  My prayers are with these families. 

Nine chil­dren were ren­dered par­ent­less by a soul-less thug in less than five min­utes.  The police have sur­rounded a house in Seat­tle with the cop killer inside — word is he’s wounded and pos­si­bly dead.  I hope it’s the for­mer and not the lat­ter.   This guy — Mau­rice Clem­mons - deserves to suf­fer tremen­dously for what he’s done.

But then again, if he’s dead, he’s already burning.

Clem­mons has a long, long rap sheet — one that goes back all the way to Arkansas when Mike Huck­abee was gov­er­nor.  MM has the whole back­story on this guy, as well as Huck’s unnec­es­sary com­mu­ta­tions and clemen­cies that resulted in Clem­mons being set free…If his 95-year sen­tence had not been com­muted, it’s very pos­si­ble this shoot­ing would never have taken place.

Pic­ture source:  City of Lakewood

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