3 months ago
PARKLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities in Washington state have identified a man with an extensive criminal past as a "person of interest" in the deadly ambush on four police officers.
The officers were shot to death Sunday at a Tacoma coffee shop while they were working on their laptops at the beginning of the shift.
A spokesman for the Pierce County sheriff said that the person of interest is Maurice Clemmons. He's said to have been recently charged in Pierce County for third-degree assault on a police officer and second-degree rape of a child. Officials won't call him a suspect and said there are other people investigators want to interview.
One of the officers is believed to have fought with the gunman and may have wounded him. Medical providers are being to asked to report any people wounded by gunshots.
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