Parolee jailed, released 3 times before slayings
Posted: December 1, 2009 at 5:39 a.m.
A Lakewood, Wash., police officer tears up during a news conference Monday on Sunday’s fatal shooting of four Lakewood officers at a coffee shop. A murder warrant has been issued for former Arkansas resident Maurice Clemmons, 37, who was the subject of an intense manhunt Monday.
The man wanted in the fatal shooting of four police officers Sunday had been jailed three times this year in Washington state but was released each time — despite being on parole for armed robbery convictions in Arkansas, authorities said Monday.
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