Person of Interest in critical condition - Updatedx4

Our newspartners at The Seattle Times are reporting that the "person of interest" in last weekend's police murder is in critical condition at Harborview with a wound to the head. 

They've also proven that having sources and their phone numbers is much more productive than waiting for media briefings at crime scenes. As we reported earlier today, SPD detectives were in Tukwila to investigate a tip from a citizen in Officer Brenton's murder:

The person who tipped police to the car said the man had only recently covered it and had been acting bizarrely, according to a law enforcement source.

The wounded man apparently has no felony history. He had recently laid off from his job as a security guard, according to the source.

The shooting happened just as the memorial service for Brenton was ending at Seattle's KeyArena. Many of the officers who attended the memorial immediately left when they got word of the shooting, some rushing to Tukwila.

The Times is also reporting that two other men have been detained, and that they may have ties to the person of interest.

Read the whole story at SeattleTimes.com 

Update: And now the 41 year old suspect is named in an update to the Seattle Times story:

Records show he was a student at Highline Community College. An adviser there said he was interested in criminal justice.

[The suspect] apparently has no felony history though he was caught speeding twice in Snohomish County, once inSeptember 2007 and again in March this year. Most recently he worked as a security guard, although he was recently laid off, according to source.

So far it seems like SPD's psychological profile pretty much nailed this guy.

Update x2: SeattleCrime.com has found a photo of the suspect from the Highline Student Newspaper.

Update x3: From a 2007 UW newsletter describing a paper produced by the suspect:

Major: Law Society and Justice

University Name: University of Washington

Year at university: Senior

Graduate Degree interest: History/Political Science

Project Title: “ The Power of Citizenship your Government doesn’t want You to know about. How to change the inequity of the Criminal Justice System immediately, through Active Citizen Nullification of Laws, as a Juror

Faculty Mentor/Department: Dr. Katherine Beckett, Political Science

Abstract This study seeks to illuminate and further the relatively unknown legal scholarship of Professor Paul Butler, in the area of Jury Nullification. My objectives are three fold. (1.) To explain in detail what jury Nullification is. (2.) Inform fellow citizens as to the history of Jury Nullification both Conceptual and Actual. (3.) Give clear succinct descrip- tions of a Citizens Rights, Duties and Protections with regards to effectuating change, through said Jury Nullifica- tion. I believe that once citizens are enlightened as to the extent of their individual power. These enlightened citizens cannot help but spread their knowledge to others, effectuating positive change at an exponential rate. Much like the elation and excitement of the young eaglet, that realizes it can fly for the first time.

Update x4: A brief statement from SPD:

On November 6^th at approximately 2:50 p.m. Seattle Police Homicide detectives were involved in a shooting in the 13700 block of 56^th Avenue South in Tukwila. No detectives were injured. 

The Tukwila Police Department is in command of the scene. The King County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit is conducting the officer-involved shooting investigation. 

The Seattle Police Department is in the process of obtaining search warrants to further examine the crime scene. Our investigation into the murder of Officer Tim Brenton and attempted murder of Officer Britt Sweeney continues.  

We will send out an advisory in advance of a media briefing, maybe as early as tomorrow.