The Maurice Clemmons Inquest: Day Two
Maurice Clemmons was struck by four of seven gunshots fired by Seattle police Officer Benjamin L. Kelly during an early-morning encounter in South Seattle on Dec. 1, a jury heard Tuesday morning in the second day of a shooting inquest.
Seattle police Detective Al Cruise said Clemmons had also suffered a fifth wound from a gunshot fired by Greg Richards, one of four Lakewood police officers killed by Clemmons two days earlier in a Parkland, Pierce County, coffee shop.
Two of the wounds inflicted by Kelly were considered fatal, Dr. Aldo Fusaro, of the King County Medical Examiner's Office, testified before an inquest jury in King County District Court.
Marking an anatomical drawing set up before the jury, Fusaro pointed out where bullets struck Clemmons: in the back, chest, arm, abdomen and thigh. Clemmons also had abrasions to his face, believed to have been caused by Seattle police when they dragged him from the walkway where he had collapsed after being shot.