BREAKING NEWS: Fort McChord Shooting (UPDATED)
UPDATE: From King5 News:
No new information except for this:
Police officers shot and killed in ‘ambush’
The suspects remain on the loose.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information. Tips can be called in to 253-591-5959.
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UPDATE: 4 Police Officers Dead
4 Police Officers Shot Dead Near Washington State Air Force Base
SEATTLE — Four police officers were shot dead in an ambush at a Washington state coffee house, a sheriff’s official said Sunday.
The attack occurred near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.
Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer tells Seattle’s KOMO-TV that the officers were hit near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m. local time.
The officers were shot at Forza Coffee, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported.
Troyer told The News Tribune in Tacoma that the officers were sitting in the coffee shop with their computers when the shooter came in Sunday morning.
He says investigators believe the officers were targeted, and it was not a robbery.
Troyer tells the newspaper “it was just a flat out ambush.”
He could not immediately say what agency the officers were from.
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A report is coming in from FoxNews of shootings of multiple police officers near McChord Air Force base in Parkland, Washington.
Will update this post as more information comes in.
Multiple Officers Reportedly Shot Near Air Force Base in Washington
PARKLAND, Wash. — Multiple police officers have reportedly been shot near McChord Air Force Base in Parkland, Wash.
Local television news reports did not release information on how many officers were shot or what their conditions are.
Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer tells KOMO-TV that the officers were hit near 116th Street and Steele Street on the east side of the Air Force base at about 8:30 a.m.
