In 1989, a 17-year-old Clemmons and two other accomplices robbed a woman at midnight in the parking lot of a Little Rock hotel bar. Clemons eventually dropped out of high school his junior year. He claimed to be carrying the gun because he was "beaten by dopers", and said he had "something for them" if they attacked him again. He was arrested when he was a junior at Hall High School for carrying a.
Clemmons lived in Marianna, Arkansas in his early youth, and moved to Little Rock as a teen. Maurice Clemmons's father made frames for automobile seats at a Chrysler factory his mother, Dorothy Mae Clemmons, worked in a nursing home. It was surpassed in July 2016 when a mass shooting occurred in Dallas, Texas, resulting in the deaths of five police officers. One week prior to the Parkland shooting, he was released from jail after posting a $150,000 bail bond.Īt the time, Clemmons' murder of four police officers represented the largest number of law enforcement officers killed by a lone perpetrator in a single incident in U.S. In the months prior to the Parkland shooting, he was in jail on charges of assaulting a police officer and raping a child. Clemmons was subsequently arrested on other charges and was jailed several times. The Arkansas Parole Board unanimously moved to release him in 2000. Although his sentences totaled 108 years in prison, those for burglary were reduced in 2000 by Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee to 47 years, which made him immediately eligible for parole. His first incarceration began in 1989, at age 17. Prior to his involvement in the shooting, Clemmons had five felony convictions in Arkansas and eight felony charges in Washington. After evading police for two days following the shooting, Clemmons was shot and killed by a police officer in Seattle. Maurice Clemmons (Febru– December 1, 2009) was identified as the shooter in the Novemmurder of four police officers in Parkland, Washington. Pierce County Sheriff's Department mugshot of Maurice Clemmons. The four Lakewood police officers were the first to be killed in the line of duty since the department was established in 2004. The Lakewood shooting is the most deadly attack on law enforcement in the state of Washington.Īt the time, the Lakewood shooting was both the second deadliest attack on law enforcement in the United States since the March 21, 2009, fatal shootings of four Oakland, California, police officers, as well as the second deadliest attack on law enforcement in a single incident by a single gunman. That gunman was shot dead in return fire.
Three weeks later on December 21 in Eatonville, two Pierce County sheriff's deputies were shot and critically injured (one later died of his wounds). Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton was murdered a month earlier under similar circumstances. When he refused orders to stop, he was shot and killed by a Seattle Police Department officer.įive people, all friends and family of Clemmons, were convicted of crimes associated with aiding his escape and enabling him to elude capture, but most convictions were reversed on appeal, based on court findings of misconduct by the Pierce County Prosecutor's Office.Ĭlemmons' shooting of the Lakewood officers was initially thought to have been part of a targeted attack by multiple persons against police officers in the Seattle-Tacoma area, but these actions are now considered unrelated. After a massive two-day manhunt that spanned several nearby cities, an officer recognized Clemmons near a stalled car in south Seattle. A gunman, later identified as Maurice Clemmons, entered the shop, shot the officers while they worked on laptops, and fled the scene with a single gunshot wound in his torso.
On November 29, 2009, four police officers of Lakewood, Washington were fatally shot at the Forza (now Blue Steele ) Coffee shop, located at 11401 Steele Street #108 South in the Parkland unincorporated area of Pierce County, Washington, near Tacoma. Maurice Clemmons (killed by gunfire two days later)
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