On the morning of November 29, 2009, in Parkland, Washington, 40-year-old officer Tina Gail Delong-griswold was one of four uniformed Lakewood Police Department members ambushed and killed in a local coffee shop. Delong-griswold, a 14-year veteran of law enforcement who had spent five years with Lakewood, was seated with Sergeant Mark Renninger and Officer Ronald Owens when a lone gunman walked to their table and opened fire with a 9mm handgun, killing Delong-griswold and Renninger. The attacker’s weapon reportedly jammed, leading to a struggle; a second weapon, a .38 revolver, was then used to fatally shoot Owens.

Officer Greg Richards engaged the suspect and managed to shoot the attacker once before being killed himself. The suspect fled, triggering a two-day manhunt that ended in Seattle when an officer fatally shot the suspect while attempting to take him into custody. Tina Delong-griswold’s family later expressed anger that the attacker had been released from prison prior to the killings.

Was anyone in the Parkland community that morning able to see or hear something that could still help clarify how the attack unfolded?