Seattle Confidential

When I read this story this weekend, it started to nag at me.  Why did this sound so familiar?  But then it hit me.  This is the beginning to the plot of L.A. Confidential.  Based on the book by James Ellroy, the movie told the story of the fallout after several LA police officers were gunned down execution-style in a local coffee shop.  Of course, in the movie, set in the 1950's, a group of young black men were framed for the murders, and then killed themselves by dirty cops to try to cover up a larger conspiracy, involving police corruption, drug dealing, and intimidation.

I know that this is not the case here, but it stood out so much in my mind when I read the story, that i felt the need to comment.  I feel for the families of the officers killed, and want to send condolences their way.  It is apparently also unclear whether the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, is still alive. He was apparently wounded in the attack, and has been holed up in a standoff with police at a house 30 miles from where he apparently opened fire and killed 4 police officers.  However this shakes out, whether Clemmons is still alive or not, the whole thing is just so senseless.  Life is short enough without crazed gunmen trying to make it any more truncated...