Police said Maurice Clemmons was shot at about 2:45 a.m. when a seven-year veteran of the Seattle force on routine patrol stopped to investigate the vehicle, which had been reported stolen. The officer, near the car, which was standing idle with its hood up, detected some movement behind him. 'He recognized the person who was approaching him to be ... the person that has been broadcast as the possible suspect in the tragic homicide in Lakewood,' assistant Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel told reporters. The officer ordered Clemmons to stop and show his hands. Instead, Clemmons began running counterclockwise around the disabled vehicle, and the officer fired several rounds at him, killing him. It was then confirmed that Clemmons had suffered a serious gunshot wound to the stomach. The search for Clemmons had led investigators around Seattle since Sunday morning's shootings in a Parkland coffee shop, where four Lakewood Police Department officers were shot over their morning coffee. 'I just want to thank all my brothers and sisters in law enforcement for the hours and hours of tireless work since this tragedy happened,' Lakewood Police Chief Bret Farrar said. 'I knew that they would bring this to a resolution -- they would find this person.' The Pierce County Sheriff's Department, which had led the investigation of the shooting in unincorporated Parkland, said a suspected getaway driver had been arrested, and officers also had taken into custody three people accused of aiding Clemmons during his two days on the run. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said additional arrests could be made of people accused of providing Clemmons with assistance. 'Some are friends, some are acquaintances, some are partners in crime, some are relatives,' he said. 'Now they're all partners in crime.' Those accused of aiding the fugitive so far have been identified as Eddie Lee Davis, Douglas Edward Davis and Rickey Hinton. Troyer also said Clemmons' sister was believed to have driven her brother to Seattle and bandaged his wound. Police began a series of major operations Sunday night, surrounding homes of Clemmons' friends and relatives in an attempt to identify those who were helping him and prevent him from finding additional shelter. The 37-year-old landscaper from Tacoma appeared to have moved around the Seattle area since the Sunday morning incident, when he entered a strip mall coffee shop, walked up to the counter as if to order coffee, then turned and opened fire on the four police officers working on their laptops before their shift. One of the officers managed to struggle with Clemmons as he made his way to the door and shot him in the stomach before being killed himself. Clemmons was found in possession of one of the officer's guns. The slain officers were identified as Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards, 42. All had been members of the force since it started five years ago. Clemmons had a history of violent crimes in Arkansas and Washington dating to his teenage years. He would have been serving a 108-year prison term in Arkansas, but his sentence was commuted by former Gov. Mike Huckabee in 2000 after Clemmons argued that he had committed his crimes -- including burglary, aggravated robbery and illegal possession of a firearm -- as a youth and had changed. In his petition to Huckabee, Clemmons said he came 'from a very good Christian family' and 'was raised much better than my actions speak.' A year after his pardon, Clemmons was back in prison on a parole violation. He was granted parole again in 2004. 'Said when he left the first time he was not ready,' one parole reviewer wrote in his notes on the case. 'Doesn't want to die in prison ... will try to do right thing.' Clemmons moved to Washington state after his release, but, family members told police, he began acting erratically and appeared to have lost some of his mental abilities. Clemmons' sister, Latanya Clemmons, told officers investigating the case that her brother -- who was released last week on $15,000 bond -- had undergone a change. 'Latanya,' the sheriff's department report said, 'stated that Maurice is not in his right mind.' 