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Timeline of Clemmons' Escape

By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee December 1, 2009

The News Tribune has a great reconstruction of how Clemmons eluded police following Sunday's shooting:



After shooting the officers and struggling with one in the doorway of the coffee shop, Clemmons walked to a white pickup truck driven by a still unnamed man. The truck, parked at a car wash at 112th Street and Steele Street, drove away at a high rate of speed.


­That truck was abandoned nearby and Clemmons later appeared on foot at a residence on 132nd Street South where Rickey Hinton lived. Clemmons had been at the house the night before and had borrowed the keys to the white pickup.


When he returned Sunday he told Hinton he had been shot and that the cops had shot him.


Clemmons woke up Eddie and Douglas Davis. Both told police later that Clemmons had told them he had "taken care of his business," and both said they understood that to mean he had shot or killed police officers. The night before, Clemmons had showed two handguns to the men and said he was going to shoot police.


­Hinton gave the keys to a white Pontiac to Eddie Davis and told him to get Clemmons out of there. While driving northbound, Clemmons gave Douglas a cell phone and asked him to make two phone calls. The three men arrived at a house in Algona-Pacific.


A female relative of Clemmons lives there and once inside Douglas Davis and the relative helped Clemmons clean a gunshot wound to his torso. Clemmons then changed clothes and put his other clothes into a bag.


From that house, Clemmons got into a car driven by the female relative.


Eddie and Douglas Davis got back into the Pontiac. Both cars were driven to the Auburn SuperMall.



The rest is here.

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