Pierce county authorities held a press conference earlier today, providing a sketch of how Maurice Clemmons killed four police officers and managed to elude police for two days.

The major bombshell: Police say they have a getaway driver in custody who parked near the Forza Coffee Company—where four Lakewood police officers were ambushed and killed Sunday morning—waiting for Clemmons to come out.

He was "parked in the car and waited two blocks away for him, helped him abandon the truck and drove away," Pierce County Sheriffs' Office spokesman Det. Ed Troyer said of the getaway driver.

Troyer said they are looking into charging the driver with murder. Prosecutors have not released the driver's name.

Pierce County authorities released the names of three other men who helped Clemmons elude police: giving law enforcement misleading tips, sheltering Clemmons, treating his wounds, or driving him away. Two brothers, Eddie and Douglas Davis, are being held in Pierce county on first degree criminal assistance charges. A third,  Ricky Hinton, Clemmons' half-brother, will be held for 72 hours while police do further investigating.

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Troyer said law enforcement's strategy in the manhunt was to freeze out the channels Clemmons would likely call on for assistance.

"It tightened the noose around his neck. He had nowhere to stay and he was out in a stolen car in the middle of the night," Troyer said.  

More  arrests are expected and police still have a number of people they want to talk to, he said, adding that police know where these people are or know how to get a hold of them.

"These people have the same type of history, same type of thug lifestyle, and same type of culture ... they live that lifestyle and we see it all the, time just not on this level," Troyer said, alluding to the 'stop snitchin' ethos.

Court documents provide a map of sorts of Clemmons' family: he and his half-brother, Hinton, lived in separate residences on the same property in Lakewood.  The day before the shooting, Clemmons asked Hinton for the keys to his white pick-up truck, which Clemmons said he wanted to borrow the following morning. In the morning, Hinton's truck was gone, but Hinton saw Clemmons returning home on foot, nursing a gun shot wound. Clemmons then woke up the Davis brothers who were sleeping in another residence on the property, and Hinton gave them the keys to his car, instructing them to get Clemmons out of there.

Referring to the large award for Clemmons capture he said: "There was 125,000 reasons for anyone of those people to pick up the phone and call and they wouldn't be in jail ... Usually there's no honor among thieves, but in this case it lasted a couple days longer than we expected."

Prosecutors say Clemmons lay in the back seat while the brothers ferried him to a female relative's house, where Douglas Davis and the relative treated his wound and let him change his clothes.

Then, with Clemmons—traveling in a two car convey with his relatives and the Davis brothers—headed for a parking lot at the Auburn Super Mall, where they met another female relative of Clemmons. The group then traveled to an apartment complex. Once they arrived, Clemmons got into a small white car with the second relative and the two drove off.

It's not clear from charging documents for the Davis brothers whether the woman drove Clemmons to the house in Seattle's Leschi neighbohood, where police later believed they had him surrounded, or if Clemmons caught a ride from someone else.

Regardless, police were aware Clemmons knew someone in the Leschi area and were patrolling the neighborhood. A small white car was pulled over minutes after the driver dropped Clemmons off. The female driver later admitted she had given Clemmons a ride and helped treat a gunshot wound he sustained in a struggle with a Lakewood police officer.

According to court records, Clemmons headed for the Leschi home after relatives offered to take him in. However, word of the manhunt for Clemmons spread quickly through his family, and the residents of the Leschi home left after speaking with Clemmons and headed to SPD's east precinct to notify officers of his imminent arrival.

The rest we know: a standoff lasted into the wee hours of the morning, culminating in a police sweep of a deserted house, and Clemmons again managed to elude authorities.

Details about where Clemmons' whereabouts after leaving the Leschi home have not yet fully come to light. But as prosecutors prepare possible charges additional against additional members of Clemmons' family, details about the final hours of his life will undoubtedly be made clear.