Four cops offed in WA

Mark Renninger is a 12-year veteran with four years at Lakewood Police Department and 8 years with the Tukwila Police Department. He served on the regional Valley Special Response Team for 4 years as an entry team member and assistant team leader and 4 years with METRO SWAT as an entry team leader. During his tenure with Lakewood and Tukwila he has instructed in firearms, active shooter, less lethal, chemical munitions, patrol and SWAT tactics. Mark is also the District 1 Representative of the Washington State Tactical Officer’s Association, and an instructor for the WSCJTC/WSTOA SWAT Basic Course

LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- Police have identified a person of interest in the fatal shootings of four Lakewood police officers.

Ed Troyer of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said they are looking for 37-year-old Maurice Clemmons.

Troyer said evidence leads police to believe that Clemmons was in the area of the shootings. He has a lengthy criminal history.

The police officers were shot dead in a Pierce County coffee shop in what a sheriff's spokesman described as a "flat-out ambush" Sunday morning.

The officers -- three men and a woman from the Lakewood Police Department -- were sitting in the coffee shop with their computers, getting ready to begin their shifts when the gunman came in at about 8:15 a.m., fired on the officers and fled, said Troyer.

One of the slain officers was identified as Sergeant Mark Renninger, who grew up in Bethlehem, Penn.

A statement from his family said, "Mark was a professional, dedicated police officer who made the ultimate sacrifice. More importantly, he was a loving and devoted father, husband and family member who will be missed by many."

Renninger's family said the officer is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.

Lakewood police said the other slain officers are Ronald Owens, 37, Tina Griswold, 40, and 42-year-old Greg Richards.

•Sgt. Mark Rennenger, 39: he had 13 years experience as a police officer. He is survived by a wife and three children.
•Ofc. Ronald Owen, 37: he had 12 years experience as a police officer. He is survived by a former wife and a daughter.
•Ofc. Tina Griswold, 40: she had 14 years of law enforcement experience. She is survived by a husband and two children.
•Ofc. Greg Richards, 42: he had eight years of law enforcement experience. He is survived by a wife and three children.

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Four. Armed. Trained. Ready willing and able.

What happened, OmSigDavid? Wrong cal. guns they were carrying? What, you idiot?

Hearts go ,out to their families and cop family. Now get the perps and fry em in EVO.

AND they all were in body armour, this was an amazing crime in a very sick way.

As long as they are loose, it could happen again.

I sincerely marvel at your stupidity, Andy,
in implying that men who 'd commit 4 murders of armed, uniformed police,
in front of everybody, will obay severe, discriminatory gun control laws. HOW do u propose to convince quadruple murderers
of police to do that?? Will u explain THAT to me?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Presumably, he used head shots

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Presumably, he used head shots

Yes, but he needed to get four in the head or neck before one got his/her weapon and fired...that means fast and accurate shots. How many people would assume that they could pull this off? Against officers with this many years experience, to include a decorated swat officer??

According to FBI data, 306 of 521 officers who were feloniously killed between 1997 and 2006 were wearing body armor. More than half of those 306 officers were shot in the head area, 9 percent in the neck/throat area, and 34 percent in the torso area. Of the 103 shots that hit officers in the torso area, 20 penetrated the vest because the vest was not designed to stop that particular weapon, while the remainder entered the torso through open side or shoulder panels, or above or below the vest

Your constant inane prattling about the necessity of going around armed was the point of addressing my post to you.