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News | December 9, 2009

20,000 attend memorial service for 4 slain police officers in Washington State Video & Slideshow

Deborah O'Malley's photo
Chicago Crime Examiner

Caskets bearing the bodies of four slain Lakewood, Wash., police officers (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)

Four police officers from the Lakewood police department in Washington state were memorialized yesterday, 9 days after they were shot and killed by Maurice Clemmons as they sat in a coffee shop.

The Associated Press reports 2,000 police and fire vehicles from 150 different agencies joined in an honor procession to the Tacoma Dome where an estimated 20,000 people attended the memorial service for the officers.

The officers who died are:

  • Officer Tina Griswold, 40,  survived by a husband and two children
  • Officer Ronald Owens, 37, survived by a former wife and a daughter
  • Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, survived by a wife and three children
  • Officer Greg Richards, 42, survived by a wife and three children

KING-TV has a moving report on the services for the offices. Click on video below.

 

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Slideshow: Memorial services for 4 officers killed in Lakewood , Washington

A procession of police vehicles passes the Lakewood, Wash. police headquarters heading to the Tacoma Dome for a memorial service Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, for four Lakewood police officers who were killed in late November while they worked on computers in a coffee shop. Hundreds of emergency vehicles and thousands of law enforcement officers came together in Lakewood/Tacoma, Wash., to honor officers Greg Richards, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Mark Renninger and who were fatally shot on Nov. 29, 2009. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Peter Haley )

Slideshow: Memorial services for 4 officers killed in Lakewood , Washington

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Deborah O'Malley is a veteran Chicago producer. She's worked in various capacities at WMAQ-TV, Fox News, and ABC Network News Chicago. She's...

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