Maurice Clemmons

The aunt of alleged police killer Maurice Clemmons is not affiliated with Seattle University as was reported in the Tacoma News Tribune Tuesday, university officials said today.

The News Tribune reported that Clemmons’ aunt, Chrisceda Clemmons, teaches at Seattle University. Chrisceda Clemmons’ home in Leschi was the scene of a standoff Sunday night and early Monday morning. But Seattle U media specialist Katie Gilliam and Jerry Huffman, assistant vice president of Human Resources, said Chrisceda Clemmons is not an employee of the university and never has been.

Chrisceda Clemmons’ name is not listed in the online faculty and staff directory or in the e-mail directory either.

Friends and family of Maurice Clemmons are being investigated for helping him evade police as they searched for him. Two men have already been charged.

Police said Maurice Clemmons had been at his aunt’s home near the intersection of Eerie Avenue and East Superior Street Sunday but likely left before police arrived and surrounded it for 11 hours.

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Stand-off part of a string of violent incidents near campus over Thanksgiving break

The person of interest in the slaying of four Lakewood police officers this morning may now be hiding in a home at East Yesler Way and 32nd Avenue South, about two miles from Seattle University’s campus.

Police responded around 8:45 p.m. to the location because a woman told police Maurice Clemmons, the person of interest, was on the property and bleeding, reports The Seattle Times. Police said earlier in the day that the killer may have been wounded in a struggle with the last police officer to be killed at Forza Coffee in Lakewood.

A SWAT team and the Seattle Police helicopter, Guardian One, have surrounded the home Clemmons is believed to be inside.

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