Four police ambushed, murdered in WA

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   Person of interest soughthttp://www.komonews.com/news/local/78106177.html

LAKEWOOD, Wash. -- Police here have identified a person of interest in the shooting deaths of four Lakewood police officers on Sunday morning. 

Det. Ed Troyer said investigators are looking for 37-year-old Maurice Clemmons, who is under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections. 

DOC spokesman Chad Lewis said Clemmons was transferred from Arkansas, where he had a record of robbery and theft. 

Clemmons was recently arrested and charged in Pierce County or third-degree assault on a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child. He had been released on $150,000 bail. 

Clemmons' involvement in the shooting was not made immediately clear. 

Records indicate Clemmons has been a Western Washington resident since 2002, when he moved to Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood before relocating to South Seattle, then to Federal Way before settling in Tacoma.

Neighbors described Clemmons as a quiet and paranoid man. They claimed Clemmons has installed cameras all around his home in Tacoma. 

"About 12 cameras, I think, in the bushes, around the house. Very paranoid," said one neighbor. 

Neighbors said they knew Clemmons had been in trouble with the law in his past, but they were shocked to discover he was being sought in connection to the deaths of the four Lakewood police officers. 

"To think that somebody who lives next door to us could have anything to do with this is scary," said one neighbor. "I mean, we live in a good neighborhood."

Anyone with information on Clemmons' whereabouts is urged to contact police immediately at 866-977-2362. A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman in the Lakewood police shooting.