Four police officers shot dead.

**thanantos** · 11-29-09, 01:04 PM

4 police officers shot, killed in ambush near Parkland | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Local & Regional

Four police officers were shot and killed in a Sunday morning ambush at a Parkland-area coffee shop, officials said........KOMO News Radio reported from the scene that a lone gunman burst into the coffee shop, shot the four officers as they were working on their computers, then fled the scene.

Mother@#$%er. Cowardly bastard.

**PapaBear** · 11-29-09, 01:07 PM

Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:54 a.m.

Report: Officers shot, killed in Washington state ambush

PARKLAND, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state official says multiple police officers have been shot near McChord Air Force Base.

Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer tells KOMO-TV that the officers were hit at the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

CNN was reporting that four officers were killed in the ambush-like shooting.

No more information was immediately available on the total number of officers shot or the extent of their injuries.

Northwest Herald | Local News and Video for McHenry County, Illinois

**thanantos** · 11-29-09, 01:07 PM

Crap, sorry repost. Mods please feel free to delete this thread.

**MacLean** · 11-29-09, 01:39 PM

This one can keep going on this side, the other post is in a secure area.

They are not identified as Deputies yet, they may be from Lakewood PD.

**Xiphos** · 11-29-09, 01:51 PM

Rest easy brothers.

**GirlInBrown** · 11-29-09, 02:36 PM

RIP......Sad day.

**oldtrooper** · 11-29-09, 03:07 PM

AP – A Pierce County Sheriff deputy runs to the site where four police officers killed in an ambush at the …

By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Gene Johnson, Associated Press Writer – 18 mins ago
TACOMA, Wash. – A gunman burst into a Washington state coffeehouse Sunday and opened fire on four police officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what an official described as a targeted ambush.
Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said officers were looking for one male suspect who fled on foot, but haven't ruled out an accomplice.
Troyer said the four officers killed — all from the Lakewood Police Department — were catching up on paperwork at the beginning of their shifts when they were attacked at 8:15 a.m. Sunday.
Troyer said the attack was clearly targeted at the officers, not a robbery gone bad.
"There were marked patrol cars outside and they were all in uniform," Troyer said.
With no known suspects, there was no indication of any connection with the Halloween night shooting of a Seattle police officer. The suspect in that shooting remains hospitalized.
Troyer would not release the names of the victims in Sunday's shooting.
It wasn't clear whether the officers even had time to draw their weapons to return fire, Troyer said.
"This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers," Troyer said.
There were two employees and a few other customers in the shop. All are being interviewed by the Pierce County Sheriff's investigators.
"Some are in shock. They are very upset," Troyer said. "They are the ones who are going to put together for us how this happened."
The Forza Coffee Shop, part of a popular local chain, is on a side street near McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, about 35 miles south of Seattle. The shop is in a small retail center alongside two restaurants, a cigar store and a nail salon.
Brad Carpenter, founder and owner of Forza Coffee, said his staff was OK and being interviewed by police, and that his main concern was with the families of the police officers.
"I'm a retired police officer, so this really hits close to home for me," he said.
Streets around the coffee shop were blocked off late Sunday morning, and a police helicopter hovered over a large crowd of investigators. TV video showed police taking possession of a pickup truck parked in a grocery store in Parkland.
Dave Gabrielson, a clerk at Foot Mart about a block away from the coffee shop, told the newspaper all was quiet when he opened the store at 8 a.m. About 30 minutes later, "All of a sudden a million cops were zooming up and down the road," Gabrielson said.
He said he saw officers bring a police dog into a nearby apartment complex.
The baristas who were inside the shop are "stunned and shocked, traumatized," Troyer said.
"We hopefully will have answers, but there is nothing more we can tell you," Troyer told KING-TV. "That's as cold-hearted as it is."
Last month, Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was shot and killed Halloween night as he was sitting in a cruiser with trainee Britt Sweeney. Sweeney was grazed in the neck.
Authorities say the man charged with that shooting also firebombed four police vehicles in October as part of a "one-man war" against law enforcement. Christopher Monfort, 41, was arrested days after the Seattle shooting and remains hospitalized.
Monfort remains hospitalized in stable condition, the hospital said Sunday.

**Big Al** · 11-29-09, 03:14 PM

Terrible news, I read this about 5 minutes ago.

**Resident Smart Ass** · 11-29-09, 03:16 PM

Unbelievable!! Outraged!

RIP

**Car 4** · 11-29-09, 03:43 PM

I knew in my heart of hearts that Monfort (Tim Brenton's killer) didn't get that crazy all by himself. That kind of hate doesn't grow in a man while he sits in his darkened apartment and surfs the internet. It has to be FED and that only happens among people of like mind. I knew there could be another.....I wish I had been wrong.

Too soon to know anything with any certainty...but when they catch this guy, I think they will find more of them.

Car 4

**pgg** · 11-29-09, 03:52 PM

My god. What is it with this year?

**gopherpuckfan** · 11-29-09, 03:57 PM

I don't even have the words to describe how I feel right now. Rest in peace, Officers.

**CTR man** · 11-29-09, 04:13 PM

Originally Posted by pgg

My god. What is it with this year?

Yea, no kidding. Time to declare open season on violent dirtbags and gangbangers again.

Be safe out there, guys.

**MacLean** · 11-29-09, 04:18 PM

I suspect this has little to do with gang bangers.

**CTR man** · 11-29-09, 04:34 PM

I saw that on another article after I typed it. Could be an organized hit. Regardless of who did it. I feel confident that they will be found and justice will be dealt swiftly.

**Blades73** · 11-29-09, 05:31 PM

RIP brothers...just got home from total media seclusion in the Adirondacks...OMG...my heart felt condolences go out to the families. I just hope the shooter "resists" arrest.

**sgtbear111** · 11-29-09, 06:10 PM

again.....

**CTR man** · 11-29-09, 07:55 PM

PARKLAND, Wash. - The man who killed four Lakewood police officers at a Parkland coffee shop may have been wounded by one of the officers.

Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told reporters at the scene that one of the officers struggled out the door and fired his gun at the attacker.

"There is evidence that a Lakewood Police officer fired off some shots, and we hope that he hit him," said Troyer. "If he's hit, that means that he's injured somewhere with a gunshot wound."

more at link.

Man who killed four Lakewood officers may be wounded | KING 5 TV | Seattle News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather | Local News

**besafe2** · 11-29-09, 07:55 PM

My thoughts & prayers to the families & everyone involved in this. It is truly heart breaking. I hope they catch the piece of shit(s) who did real soon.