Candlelight vigil in downtown Kent for Lakewood Police officers

Published 11:35 am Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Join your fellow Kent residents for a candlelight vigil 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3, to acknowledge the Lakewood Police officers killed in the line of duty Nov. 29, as well as supporting Kent’s own officers.

The vigil has been organized by the North Park Neighborhood Council, and takes place between City Hall and the Police Department.

Officer Greg Richards, one of the four officers killed Nov. 29 while at a Parkland coffee shop, served with the Kent Police Department from September 2001 until October 2004, before hiring on with the Lakewood Police Department.

The other officers are Tina Griswold, 40, Ronald Owen, 37, and Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39.

Maurice Clemmons, 37, the man believed to have been the gunman, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning in Seattle, following a massive manhunt that stretched from Pierce County up to Seattle.

He is accused of walking into the coffee shop where the four officers were sitting and opening fire at them.