Helping a Cop Killer: Maurice Clemmons' Friends, Family Busted

Dec. 2, 2009— -- Cop killer Maurice Clemmons pulled together a group of family and prison friends -- even a 12-year-old relative -- to hide him from the cops while he was on the run, according to investigators who are piecing together a timeline of his two days on the lam.

Pierce County officials have arrested six people -- four men and two women -- in connection with the nearly 48 hours police spent hunting Clemmons following the execution of four Lakewood, Wash., police officers in a coffee shop.

Three of the men, Eddie Davis, Douglas Davis and Rickey Hinton, appeared in court Tuesday. The remaining three suspects, Darcus Allen, Letricia Nelson and Quiana Williams, have been booked into the county jail, but not formally charged. Allen and Clemmons met while in prison, according to ABC News affiliate KOMO TV.

Probable cause documents released by police detail how police identified Clemmons as the gunman and the dragnet for him that spread from Lakewood to Seattle.

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According to the documents, Eddie and Douglas Davis, Clemmons showed them two handguns on Saturday night, hours before the Sunday morning coffee shop shooting, and told them he was going to shoot police. The comments were made while Hinton, who described himself as Clemmons' half-brother, was in the room.

A few hours later, about 8 a.m., Clemmons walked into the Forza Coffee Shop just outside Lakewood where four police officers were doing paperwork before their shifts. A woman who worked at the coffee shop told police that she greeted the new customer, but that he had a "blank look on his face," according to the documents.

He walked towards the unsuspecting cops "and when he got near them, pulled out a gun and started shooting toward the officers," it said.