MISTRIAL WA - Four Parkland PD officers shot to death, 29 Nov 2009 *shooter killed, Driver 3rd hung jury*

[Tizzle]

Woman who turned in cop killer left homeless

SEATTLE – Nearly two months ago Chrisceda Clemmons turned her nephew, cop killer Maurice Clemmons, in to police.

But now her house and the ground it sits on is still contaminated. Seattle Police fired an unprecedented 75 canisters of tear gas into the home. All the possessions are have been put in storage. The home is toxic, unlivable.

The City of Seattle is testing and dissecting every corner of the home. Preliminary tests show toxic chemicals from the tear gas remain.

"We literally walked away with what we were wearing and that was it," said Clemmons.

In November, Chrisceda Clemmons made a call to police that her nephew, suspected police killer Maurice Clemmons, was on his way to the house.

Maurice Clemmons got away that night, but Chrisceda Clemmons' life was shattered.

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So far, the city has spent $28,000 to relocate Chrisceda's family. the city wants to make them whole again.

"We need to put them back the way they were before this event occurred, but we also need to be judicious with tax payers dollars," said Bruce Hori, director of Seattle Risk Management.

Chrisceda and her husband are musicians with a steel drum band. They're joining other bands in a show that would have benefited the Clemmons family. Instead, Chrisceda has decided to donate all the proceeds to Haiti.

"The money that we are earning tonight, because their disaster is much greater than what we've had to experience here," she said


http://www.king5.com/news/local/Woman-who-turned-in-cop-killer-left-homeless-82210417.html

 

[Tizzle]

Inquest Ordered In The Shooting Death Of Maurice Clemmons

http://www.seattlemedium.com/News/article/article.asp?NewsID=100992&sID=4&ItemSource=L

 

[Missizzy]

http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2009/12/the_maurice_clemmons_recap_opi.html

"The Maurice Clemmons recap: A strange new video, new post-mortem photo, new murder charges, new parolee policies, new family drama, and more on the aftermath"

I'm posting this as I don't see this video posted on the thread. If it has been, please let me know and I'll remove this. Thanks.

 

[Tizzle]

http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2009/12/the_maurice_clemmons_recap_opi.html

"The Maurice Clemmons recap: A strange new video, new post-mortem photo, new murder charges, new parolee policies, new family drama, and more on the aftermath"

I'm posting this as I don't see this video posted on the thread. If it has been, please let me know and I'll remove this. Thanks.

I posted that a couple of pages back, but there's nothing wrong with bumping it, again. Also, the controversial 'post-mortem photo' they mention is on MC's wiki page. Which I thought was strange, but it is there. I meant to drop this link here sooner, but forgot to. :angel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Clemmons

 

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May trial date set for those charged with helping Clemmons

Six people charged with helping cop killer Maurice Clemmons or his alleged getaway driver following the shooting deaths of four Lakewood police officers tentatively are set to go on trial this spring.

Pierce County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Arend today set May 17 as the trial date for Eddie Lee Davis, 20; Douglas Edward Davis, 22; Rickey Hinton, 47; Letrecia Nelson, 53; Quiana Williams, 26 and Latanya Clemmons, 34.

Eddie Davis, Douglas Davis, Hinton, Nelson and Williams all are charged with various counts of rendering criminal assistance for allegedly helping Clemmons leave Tacoma after the Nov. 29 attack that left Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39; and officers Tina Griswold, 40; Greg Richards, 42; and Ronald Owens, 37, dead.

Eddie and Douglas Davis also face weapons charges.

Latanya Clemmons is charged with multiple counts of rendering criminal assistance for allegedly helping Darcus Allen evade capture following the shooting. Allen, who subsequently was arrested, is believed to have driven Maurice Clemmons to and from the Parkland coffee shop where the shooting took place.

Allen, 38, is being held on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas. He's yet to be charged in the police shooting.
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/crim...-set-for-those-charged-with-helping-clemmons/

Clemmons' alleged driver makes court appearance

Darcus Allen, the man who allegedly drove the killer of four Lakewood police officers to the area where the Nov. 29 slayings occurred, made a brief appearance in Pierce County Superior Court Wednesday.

A prosecutor informed the judge that Washington state authorities are still waiting for an extradition request from Arkansas, where a fugitive warrant was issued for Allen in connection with a March 22 bank robbery in Little Rock.

Allen, 38, who previously served 14 years in prison for a 1990 double murder in Arkansas, is being held without bail on the fugitive warrant, as well as earlier misdemeanor charges in Pierce County.

Prosecutors previously said they expected to file charges against Allen by Wednesday that could include murder or rendering criminal assistance in connection with the slayings of the officers. But detectives are continuing to investigate and no new charges have been filed against Allen, prosecutors said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/theblotter/2010910158_clemmons_alleged_driver_makes.html

 

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No Charges Yet For Maurice Clemmons' Alleged Getaway Driver

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. -- Two months ago, the alleged getaway driver for cop killer Maurice Clemmons was arrested, but filling charges against him appears to have hit a snag.

Pierce County sheriff's detectives believe Darcus Allen drove Clemmons to the Forza on Nov. 29 the morning four Lakewood police officers were ambushed and killed, but charging him has proven difficult.

“Well, at this point we have so many people that have lied to us and we believe we have some telling the truth and we have to go and corroborate everything,” said Detective Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

Investigators said none of the so-called Clemmons seven, the friends and family members accused of helping him escape capture after the slayings, are cooperating.

In Allen’s case, time could be running out because he is wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas and could be sent there unless he's held on charges here.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22360065/detail.html

 

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Clemmons' jail tapes reveal vow to kill
The man who fatally shot four Lakewood police officers described his deadly intentions over and over in conversations with his wife and others.

He stands alone at a jailhouse phone, his only connection to the outside world in early October. Labeled as a dangerous inmate, he spends all but 60 minutes a day in "the Hole."

Maurice Clemmons has a message and a vision he needs to make sure his wife understands. It's a message he will deliver himself once he's out of the Pierce County Jail.

His voice is calm, matter of fact. He tells his wife, Nicole Smith, he'll need a gun.

"I ain't use to pack one, but every day where I go, I'm going to have one right in my front pocket."

And if police cross him?

"It's going to be the last time they (say) 'Hey mister.' Boom. Dead in they forehead."

But on this day, Nicole is distracted, even disinterested in what Maurice has to say — she's heard it all before.

Their Oct. 4 conversation is one of 28 calls the couple shared as Clemmons vowed that he would never again be handcuffed by police, face another judge or be jailed.

Clemmons, 37, knew his every word was being recorded — it's routine at the jail — but it didn't stop him from describing his deadly intentions. During the majority of the calls, he talks of a killing spree, saying it will be retribution for a lifetime of abuse at the hands of law enforcement.

At times the couple spoke of the mundane details of life — his in solitary confinement and hers at their South Tacoma home. But in reality their world was collapsing around them. He feared a life in prison and obsessed about revenge. She feared losing her home, as foreclosure was imminent.

These 20-minute conversations, never heard before by the public, were obtained by The Seattle Times through a records request. In all, more than nine hours of talks Clemmons had with his wife and others were recorded from Oct. 1 to Nov. 17 and turned over to the newspaper several weeks ago. In his own words, Clemmons reveals his state of mind two months before he would carry out the most deadly attack on law enforcement in state history. Within weeks of the calls, four police officers and Clemmons would die.

Clemmons was a public-safety threat, concluded Craig Adams, a Pierce County deputy prosecuting attorney who reviewed the recordings before releasing them to the paper. Law enforcement rarely listens to live jail calls, so Adams believed there was little authorities could have done to prevent the shootings.

"Hindsight is perfect," Adams said. "He was feeling victimized, rightly or wrongly. He felt framed."

Pierce County has held back some recordings as prosecutors work to prove that other family members and friends helped Clemmons hours after his Nov. 29 rampage. That was the day he walked into Forza Coffee Co. and killed Lakewood police Sgt. Mark Renninger and Officers Ron Owens, Tina Griswold and Greg Richards.

In some calls, yet to be released, Clemmons blatantly tells his friends to post bond and, once he's out, to get him a phone and a gun, Adams said.

When he did get out, he told people on Thanksgiving Day that he planned to kill cops, children and as many people as he could at an intersection, court documents show.

Clemmons eerily predicted nearly two months earlier, when he was in jail, that that day would come.

"It's going to make them cry in the end," Clemmons told his wife. "Sure is, their kids and everybody else."​

More here, including recorded phone calls.

 

[Missizzy]

I have a son in state prison and I've always wondered why they record calls if they are not going to listen to them. The prisoners are warned that the calls are being recorded but just about any frequent flyer can tell you that they rarely are. I imagine we could learn an awful lot if we paid a recruit to sit there all day and listen to and transcribe these calls.

We might be able to save a life or two. This is devastatingly sad to listen to.

 

[Texas Mist]

Charges Filed Against Clemmons’ Alleged Getaway Driver

Posted: 10:51 am PST March 2,2010 Updated: 11:37 am PST March 2,2010
TACOMA, Wash. -- Maurice Clemmons’ alleged getaway driver was charged with four counts of first-degree aggravated murder in connection to the deaths of four Lakewood police officers.

Darcus Allen has been in jail for three months, but charges were not filed against him until Tuesday.

According to probable cause documents, Allen was with Clemmons on Thanksgiving Day when Clemmons "told everyone that he intended to murder police officers."

On the day of the murders, Nov. 29, documents said Allen drove Clemmons to the Parkland Forza coffee shop and waited down the street for him while he ambushed and killed the officers: Tina Griswold, Mark Renninger, Ronald Owens and Greg Richards.

After the murders, Allen drove to a parking lot near Clemmons’ home and left the truck, documents said. Allen later checked into a Federal Way motel under a false name and was arrested on Dec. 1 on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas.

more here

http://www.kirotv.com/news/22717389/detail.html

 

[Missizzy]

Congratulations to the Seattle Times!! They deserved the Pulitzer. IMO, they did a fine job with keeping the public informed and setting the perfect tone in a tragic chain of events.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011588039_apuspulitzerslist.html

Seattle Times wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Lakewood officers' slayings


"The Seattle Times has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the shooting deaths of four Lakewood Police officers and the 40-hour manhunt for the suspect, Maurice Clemmons. The award, shared by the newspaper staff, is the eighth Pulitzer Prize won by The Seattle Times, and the first since the paper won two in 1997....."

more at link

 

[Salem]

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[Salem]

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[JoeFromLB]

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/421935_sister17.html

TACOMA - A judge has sentenced the sister of Lakewood cop killer Maurice Clemmons to 5 years in prison for her role in helping others allegedly involved in the shooting.

Latanya Clemmons was found guilty last Thursday of rendering criminal assistance for purposefully hiding her boyfriend Darcus Allen in a motel. She also was convicted of a second count of rendering criminal assistance for paying for Allen's motel room.

Five years was the maximum sentence allowed for those convictions.

 

[Texas Mist]

No decision on death penalty for cop killer's accused driver

TACOMA, Wash. - Prosecutors have been given some extra time to decide whether to seek the death penalty against the man accused of driving Maurice Clemmons after he killed four Lakewood police officers last year.

The previous deadline for a decision on the death penalty was Nov. 15. But on Friday a judge gave Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist until Dec. 31 to decide.

The accused getaway driver, Darcus Allen, faces four counts of aggravated first-degree murder for his alleged part in the crime. Allen also faces charges of rendering criminal assistance.

There are two possible sentences for aggravated murder: life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. But Lindquist said his office needs more time to review evidence before deciding whether to seek the death penalty.

more here

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/106351793.html

 

[Missizzy]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013359255_policeawards06m.html

Seattle police honor officer who shot Clemmons


Officer Benjamin Kelly, who fatally shot gunman Maurice Clemmons less than 48 hours after Clemmons killed four Lakewood police officers in a Parkland coffee shop last November, is the Seattle Police Department's Officer of the Year.

Kelly, a five-year veteran, also will receive the department's medal of valor at Saturday night's 9th annual police awards banquet at the Westin Hotel....."


more at length

 

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Memorial dedicated to fallen officers: 'Gone but not forgotten'

LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- One year after four Lakewood police officers were murdered inside a Pierce County coffee shop, family members, fellow officers and local and state leaders gathered for a somber ceremony to dedicate a memorial outside Lakewood police headquarters on Monday.

The memorial bears the names of Sgt. Mark Renniger and Officers Tina Griswold, Ronnie Owens and Greg Richards etched above four stars with the date they were killed inside a Pierce County coffee shop.

Next to the names is quote reading, "There is no higher calling than to do one's duty, and they served well," and an image of a kneeling officer.

more here

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/110979804.html


more pictures here

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/110979804.html?tab=gallery

 

[Texas Mist]

TACOMA, Wash. -- One year to the day after cop killer Maurice Clemmons died, the trial of his accused accomplices is almost ready to go to the jury.
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Clemmon's half-brother Hinton is accused of providing a getaway car for Clemmons, and erasing his cell phone calls.

His cousin, Eddie Davis is accused of driving Clemmons from the area and helping treat his wounds.

Clemmon's employee, Doug Davis, is accused of riding with Clemmons as he made his get away...

And Letrecia Nelson, Clemmons' aunt, is accused of treating his wounds, providing him a safe place to stay for a while, then lying to police. A portion of her interview conducted a year ago played in court on Wednesday.

more here

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/111163289.html

 

[Missizzy]

IMO, it is absolutely outrageous and shocking how family members and friends aided and abetted Clemmons in his evil. He was a frightening charismatic and/or powerful man.

 

[Texas Mist]

Rickey Hinton was found not guilty on two counts of rendering criminal assistance.

Letricia Nelson was found guilty on both counts against her. She was charged with rendering criminal assistance and possession of a stolen firearm.

Douglas Davis was found not guilty of rendering criminal assistance, but guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm, and guilty of possession of a stolen firearm.

Eddie Davis was found guilty on all three counts against him.

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Clemmons-accomplices-verdict-111273469.html

 

[JoeFromLB]

Getaway driver GUILTY of first-degree murder, faces life without parole.

http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=483961