My heart breaks today for the families and fellow officers of four uniformed police officers shot down today in Tacoma (Parkland), Washington. A coward walked in to a coffee shop and slaughtered them. Three men and a woman who had devoted their lives to our safety; dead in a second. At the hands of a murderous waste of life force, a gutless chancre on society.
I desperately wish for him justice at the hands of the other men and women in blue.
I wish for those left behind healing peace, in time.
Thank you for your dedication to our society, officers. God speed.
From the Seattle-Times web site:
Police are looking for a Pierce County man in his 30s in connection with the execution-style shooting for four Lakewood police officers in a coffee shop this morning, sources told The Seattle Times.
The officers were killed at about 8:15 a.m. by a scruffy-looking man who walked into the coffee shop and opened fire.
The officers — three men and one woman — were found dead by deputies who arrived at Forza Coffee at 11401 Steele St. S., said Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer. The officers made up one patrol unit, including a sergeant. Their families have been notified, but their identities have not been released.
"It's carnage out front everywhere," Troyer said, describing the front of the coffee shop. "It's like a bad horror movie, it's horrible."
The officers were in uniform, including bulletproof vests, and were working on their laptop computers as they prepared to start their day shifts, Troyer said. It is unclear whether they drew their guns and fired their weapons, he said.
"This was a targeted, selective ambush," Troyer said.
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