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Monday, November 30, 2009

Crime A Blood Trail at Cowen Park

Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Police are closing down streets and preparing to search Cowen Park north of the University District, police are saying on the SPD scanner. Officers have reported a "blood trail" near the public bathrooms.

In the park, someone appears to be "asleep under the footbridge," says a male officer. "It could be an unknown transient, or it could be something else."

UPDATE 12:53 PM: Police say the blood trail begins at a bus stop at Cowen Place NE and continues into the park. The officer says the blood is "still liquid." Officers are calling in at least one K-9 unit. Police are preparing to search the entire park, about a half-mile long, on foot. Meanwhile, another officer says the man under the blanket is white, so he's not the suspect.

UPDATE 1:08 PM: Police have begun a foot search of Cowen Park, starting on the west side and moving east.

UPDATE 3:00 PM: Matt Hickey says, "Not much going on here. It's clear. A few seagulls and a reporter from NPR. No sign of the guy in the body armor, sadly. I really wanted to see him."

Matt Hickey

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hey, cool! just a block from my stepdaughter's house.

Posted by Max Solomon on November 30, 2009 at 12:50 PM

No dice. Just an ordinary white male under the blanket.

Posted by heywhatsit!? on November 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM

Hopefully it's Greg Nickels, desperate for drug money after losing the election, he resorted to turning tricks and sleeping in neighborhood parks.

Posted by AliceInChains on November 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM

Clemmons apparently has twitter.

http://twitter.com/mauriceclemmons

Posted by geekgirl on November 30, 2009 at 12:52 PM

There is almost always someone sleeping, getting high, or just hanging out under that footbridge.

Posted by Hernandez

on November 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM

@4: and he follows Gavin Newsom? Rachel Maddow? DAVID LYNCH???

This must be a fake...please...

Posted by baconpussy on November 30, 2009 at 12:56 PM

@6 That's what I thought, but the most recent tweet is from July. Why would anyone bother to fake a twitter account months ago?

Posted by geekgirl on November 30, 2009 at 12:59 PM

At the very least we're learning just how much public bleeding happens routinely around here. Who knew?

Posted by kinaidos on November 30, 2009 at 1:02 PM

There are probably 15 people or more in the US alone named Maurice Clemmons. Ooh, "Twitter is over capacity" again.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 30, 2009 at 1:02 PM

You broke Twitter.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on November 30, 2009 at 1:08 PM

@9 Damn, with twitter down, I can't check if the photo on the Maurice Clemmons account is the same as the one on the slog homepage. I thought it was the same guy, but I didn't look closely.

Posted by geekgirl on November 30, 2009 at 1:10 PM

@11: we have mole. I'm saying it's him. But hey, I'm totes a doofus.

Posted by baconpussy on November 30, 2009 at 1:14 PM

cool just a couple blocks from my house. I will make sure not to walk around my neighborhood in my fake police uniform tonight....

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on November 30, 2009 at 1:19 PM

Oh great, too close to my house!! I don't want to deal with my neighborhood locked down tonight!!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM

Fucking hell, it's like reading a liveblog version of The Fugitive. I'm on the 3dg3 0f my s33t.

Except mostly I just want the crazy bastard caught.

Posted by Judah

on November 30, 2009 at 1:36 PM

BTW, shouldn't he just finally die simply by bleeding out?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 30, 2009 at 1:37 PM

The vigilantes are coming out! Just heard on the scanner that a officer in the Ravena area stopped a man with legal concealed weapons and possibly illegal body armor. Crazy!

Posted by geekgirl on November 30, 2009 at 1:43 PM

@17:

Why is body armor illegal but concealed weapons are legal?

I think the opposite would make better sense in terms of public safety.

Posted by passionate_jus on November 30, 2009 at 1:50 PM

I looked at both pictures closely and I don't think it's the same guy. The guy in the Twitter photograph seems to have a larger mole and a different nose.

Plus all of the folks he is following are from the east coast.

Posted by passionate_jus on November 30, 2009 at 1:53 PM

how is this guy still alive? He's been bleeding out for 72 hours+...

Posted by michael strangeways

on November 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM

@20, how do you get 72 hours from Sunday 8:15 AM to Monday 2:08 PM?

Posted by Fnarf

on November 30, 2009 at 2:20 PM

@21, Math too hard to do....

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on November 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM

Cato come hide at my house.

Posted by baconpussy on November 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM

@22, if you and a friend took all of your clothes off, you'd have enough digits to count it out.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM

I pass by Cowen Park every day. Men sleeping under bridges and even a blood trail are actually not uncommon. That's also where they found the black bear last year.

Posted by dan10things