Seattle, WA- Police Officers Shot/LODD 10-31-09

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Date: 10-31-09

Time: 2215hrs

Location: 29th Avenue and East Yesler Way.

Departments:

Description: (2) Police Officers shot in a drive-by shooting with a rifle while sitting in a marked patrol car. PO Timothy Brenton, 9-year vet, was killed and PO Brit Sweeney, (1) month out of the police academy, was injured.

Writer: Truck4

Links:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/loca...copshot01m.html

"Speaking at a news conference Sunday afternoon, Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel called the slaying of Officer Timothy Brenton an assassination. Britt Sweeney, a student officer who was with Brenton, was wounded in the shooting."