The man convicted of murdering veteran East Precinct officer Timothy Brenton and shooting a Seattle Police rookie in a 2009 Halloween attack has been sentenced to life in prison.
46-year-old Christopher Monfort was spared the death penalty but faces a life behind bars without the possibility of parole for murdering a law enforcement officer. Jurors deliberated for less than an hour on the decision.
A jury convicted Monfort in June for the killing prosecutors said was part of a two-week campaign of violence against police officers. A week before the killing, police say Monfort set off explosive devices and set three police cars on fire at a maintenance yard. The judge in the case said Monfort has a mental disease or defect but was capable of knowing murder was illegal. Monfort had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury also found Monfort guilty of one count of attempted murder and arson.
Brenton was shot as he sat in his patrol car on Halloween night near 29th and Yesler. Officer Britt Sweeney was wounded in the attack but survived.
Prosecutors say Monfort, 41 at the time of the attack, had written a manifesto against police brutality before the shooting.
In November 2014, CHS visited the community memorial at the site of the shooting on the fifth anniversary of Brenton’s murder. Brenton was 39 and left behind a wife Lisa and two children.
In 2009, a procession of police cars filled Broadway the day following the murder as Brenton’s body was taken to Bonney Watson Funeral Home. A massive search for the killer included images of the suspect vehicle and a suspect description full of fears of domestic terrorism. Six days later, just as a memorial service for Brenton at Key Area concluded, police moved in on a suspect traced to Tukwila. Monfort was shot by police during his arrest and paralyzed from the waist down.
Early in 2014, Governor Jay Inslee instituted a moratorium on all executions in the state. Nine men on Washington’s death remain incarcerated.
Interesting how a black guy shoots a police officer to try and stop police brutality, but when a black man gets shot by police, its self defense……. WAY TO GO WHITE AMERICA, way to go…. or as Babe’s owner would say, “That’ll do pig, that’ll do.”
/facepalm
Interesting how you think violence is OK as long as the right race for you is doing it.
Yes of course. All the unjustified police shootings should be good for at least one free pass to a lucky cop killer to “get out of jail free”, right? Yeah of course, that makes perfect sense.
Oh come on, singleblackfemale, that’s not even good trolling. Omari could do better than that.
AND IT WOULD BE IN ALL CAPS TOO
Wow.
I live fairly close to where this happened. It was horrible. There were number of other shootings that happened within a close period of time, some of them resulting in the death of the victims. Most of the killings were black on black crime. Every single one of the murders was heinous, devastating for the victims and their families, and very traumatic for the neighborhood. The fact that anyone would joke about this or use it as some type of soapbox is completely disgusting.
I tend to think that the death penalty is justified in egregious cases like this one, but perhaps a lifetime in prison is even more of a punishment. And, as an added bonus, alot of taxpayer money is saved (no legal expenses, as there is for 20+ years of appeals for the death penalty.)
WHAT ABOUT THE WHITE EUROPEAN COLONIAL SETTLER “JUDE0-CHRISTIAN” TERRORORIST (TERRORISM = POLICE / MILITARY VIOLENCE TARGETING CIVILIANS) THAT MURDERED UNARMED ELDERLY DISABLED NATIVE AMERICAN JOHN T. WILLIAMS ON GOVERNMENT VIDEO??? WHAT TWO FACED “FORKED TONGUE” HYPOCRISY!!! Omari Tahir-Garrett, VIETNAM VETERAN, WORLD TRAVELER AN SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE POS. 9
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