Note: Video included.
http://www.nwcn.com/news/washington/Formal-charges-expected-in-Seattle-police-killing-69584677.html
“Child porn found on computer of SPD murder suspect”
by JIM FORMAN / KING 5 News and KING5.com Staff
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Updated yesterday at 11:27 PM
SNIPPET: “SEATTLE - KING 5 News has learned Monfort is now being investigated on child pornography charges. Investigators say they found massive amounts of child pornography on Monfort’s computer.”
KING 5 News also now knows the exact content of one of two notes left at the scene of the police car bombings on October 22. Law enforcement sources tell us they believe Monfort wrote the notes, assuming police officers would die when the cars exploded.”
SNIPPET: “Seattle Police say the DNA of the suspect in the Oct. 31 murder of Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton was found at both the murder scene and the scene of a firebombing of several police vehicles on Oct. 22.
Police say they are certain they have the car, a Datsun 210, and the gun, an assault rifle hobbled together from different parts, that their only suspect, Christopher Monfort, used to gun down Officer Tim Brenton.
“We’ve determined through the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab that the assault rifle found in the apartment is an identical ballistic match to bullet fragments taken from the scene October 31st that killed Officer Brenton and almost killed Officer Sweeney,” Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said at a Monday news conference.
At Monday’s press conference, police released photos of the car and a rifle.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIJTkHe5NcnxBL030Hz_ss2OVotAD9BSCAAO0
Police: DNA, bullets link suspect to officer death
By GENE JOHNSON (AP) – 1 day ago
SEATTLE —
SNIPPET: “Seattle Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said DNA belonging to 41-year-old Christopher Monfort was found on an American-flag-style bandanna on the ground where Officer Timothy Brenton was shot and killed and officer-trainee Britt Sweeney was wounded, and the .223 rifle used in the attack was found in Monfort’s apartment.
In addition, investigators found Monfort’s DNA on a small flag found at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were firebombed on Oct. 22, Pugel said.
That attack is now being described as an attempted assassination: A fire in a mobile command post was set first, apparently to attract officers, and after they arrived, the cruisers exploded. Two officers who responded almost parked next to the cruisers that exploded, but instead drove to a different part of the maintenance yard looking for the culprit.
“They would have been killed or seriously maimed,” Pugel said. “He meant to kill someone then.””