12-01-2009, 03:13 PM
i'm shocked to hear of this... j/k
one of the murdered cops is from Bethlehem, PA.
http://www.mcall.com/news/all-a1_5rennin...0099.story
Mark Renninger didn't do anything halfway. So when he had to take an elective at Liberty High School to graduate, it was a class in which, even as a teenager, he threw himself into the issue of aging and the elderly.
When he went into the military, he wasn't going to be any soldier, he had to be an elite Army Ranger. And when he became a police officer near Tacoma, Wash., he wasn't satisfied being on the SWAT team, he had to be the guy teaching SWAT tactics to other police forces.
It was that kind of dedication -- to everything -- that put the Bethlehem native in that coffee shop in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood, where he and three fellow officers were gunned down by a man authorities identified as Maurice Clemmons.
Clemmons simply was in search of police to kill, investigators say. And Sgt. Renninger, in an effort to better prepare and know the officers he commanded, had made it his Sunday morning ritual to meet them for coffee and discuss their upcoming shift.
''He did everything the right way, and he did it all the way,'' said Michael Renninger, who at 33 is six years younger than his brother. ''He always had this strong desire to help people. A lot of people are sad today. He's touched so many.''
one of the murdered cops is from Bethlehem, PA.
http://www.mcall.com/news/all-a1_5rennin...0099.story
Mark Renninger didn't do anything halfway. So when he had to take an elective at Liberty High School to graduate, it was a class in which, even as a teenager, he threw himself into the issue of aging and the elderly.
When he went into the military, he wasn't going to be any soldier, he had to be an elite Army Ranger. And when he became a police officer near Tacoma, Wash., he wasn't satisfied being on the SWAT team, he had to be the guy teaching SWAT tactics to other police forces.
It was that kind of dedication -- to everything -- that put the Bethlehem native in that coffee shop in the Tacoma suburb of Lakewood, where he and three fellow officers were gunned down by a man authorities identified as Maurice Clemmons.
Clemmons simply was in search of police to kill, investigators say. And Sgt. Renninger, in an effort to better prepare and know the officers he commanded, had made it his Sunday morning ritual to meet them for coffee and discuss their upcoming shift.
''He did everything the right way, and he did it all the way,'' said Michael Renninger, who at 33 is six years younger than his brother. ''He always had this strong desire to help people. A lot of people are sad today. He's touched so many.''