what motivated the Lakewood police shooting?
In a very tragic accident, 4 police officers were killed in a Washington state coffee shop on Sunday in the morning at 8am PST. The suspect who fired at the officers has not been identified as yet but according to witnesses present on the scene, one of the officers was agile enough to fire a round of bullets. So it is being speculated that the suspect might be injured with gunshot wounds. The incident is sad and tragic and more so for the fact that, this was the first time that any officers died from the Lakewood Police department. “There is evidence that a Lakewood Police officer fired off some shots, and we hope that he hit him,” a police spokesman said. “If he’s hit, that means that he’s injured somewhere with a gunshot wound. The investigations were on and then the police identified the thirty-seven year old Maurice Clemmons, as a person of interest in the shooting and it was also revealed that he has a troubled criminal history. 4 police officers were killed in this shoot-out, and
Details have begun to emerge in the Lakewood police shooting that took place earlier today at 8:15 AM on Sunday morning. Four police officers, three men and a woman, were “ambushed” at a coffee shop in Lakewood, which is in Washington state, 40 miles south of Seattle and 10 miles southwest of Tacoma. The word ambush has been attributed to the Lakewood police shooting as the four officers were sitting in the coffee shop, with their laptops, planning the day’s shift when a gunman entered and shot them to death. There was no attempt at a robbery. No employees of the Forza’s coffee shop, one of a chain of 21 in the Tacoma area, were hurt. The Lakewood police shooting gunman is described by one witness as a “scruffy-looking” African-American, somewhere between 5’7″ and 5’10”, in his 20s or 30s. He was wearing a black jacket over a gray hooded sweatshirt, and blue jeans. A $10,000 reward has been offered for information that leads to his capture. Police have tagged as evidence a white pickup
Sunday, four police were killed while eating breakfast in a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington. The killer escaped, and so far, no clear motive has emerged from the shooting. Witness say there was no altercation; that the killer simply walked in and began firing. Authorities suspect he might have been mentally unbalanced. Sources: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010385339_webshootingupdates29m.
