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Police have rounded up and arrested key players from Tuesday's deadly Wal-Mart shooting and armored truck robbery. One of the suspects, a female Wal-Mart employee, has led police to believe that the perfectly timed robbery was a serious inside job. Sadly, the police note that the violence was intentionally planned; without any hesitation, one gunman killed Loomis armored guard Kurt Husted with a single shot. Today, the "key players," three men and a woman, are expected to appear in court charged with murder, robbery, and assault charges. More arrests could be made, as the police currently have an additional four suspects being held in custody for planning the robbery.

Seattle 911 reports that there was a shooting during an armored truck robbery at the Lakewood Wal-Mart, leaving the truck driver dead and possibly a second Loomis employee injured. The two shooters fled in what may have been a white four-door sedan. (Thanks for narrowing things down, eyewitnesses.) NWCN/KING says, "The suspects are described as black males. One is 6 feet tall with an average build wearing a white hat with colored trim across the bill, a long sleeve white shirt and black pants. The second suspect is 6-feet to 6-feet 2-inches tall. He is wearing a blue baseball hat and a blue short sleeve button up short over a white t-shirt and blue jeans."

Lights & Sirens, Tacoma News Tribune's crime blog, reported this morning that a 68-year-old Lakewood man was killed by his own van at a gas station late last night when the vehicle rolled forward, knocked him down in front of the van, and pinned him under the wheels. According to Lights & Sirens, "the man's death is being investigated as accidental" and "investigators will be checking over the van to see if a mechanical failure prompted it to roll over the man" (as opposed to...malicious intent on the part of the vehicle?). What a brutal, random way to go.

The Christ Child and the spawn of Satan, a.k.a. secularists, have been duking it out in Lakewood about who gets to claim "that major event in December involving an evergreen tree and lights on a string." Though Andrew Neiditz, the Lakewood city manager, says he wants to use inclusive language whenever possible to avoid offending non-Christians, he is firmly in Baby Jesus' camp: Neiditz declared that at least on his watch, said wintry event shall be named Christmas and said evergreen shall be named a Christmas Tree. It's the American way.

While the rest of the world was glued to soccer shoot-outs on the field, Lakewood, Wash., police were investigating the deaths of two men from a soccer related shoot-out off field. While the names of the victims have yet to be released, KOMO News is reporting two young men were killed after a soccer dispute escalated into gunfire on Saturday night. Police have said that one of them was an innocent bystander, and another bystander was injured by an errant bullet. Two gunmen were involved in the shooting—one is in the morgue and the other remains at large. Lakewood police did detain and question a suspect about the shooting, but he has since been cleared of involvement and released.

Despite Seattle's herb-friendly reputation, there sure have been a lot of highly publicized marijuana arrests lately. Every time we refresh the local news sites it seems there is a new headline about an even larger scale bust. KIRO 7 has even started calling them "marijuana raids"--which is so Prohibition Era of them.

A Lakewood, Wash., 17-year-old and her infant son are lucky to be alive after a natural gas explosion blew their home off its foundation Wednesday afternoon. Around 3 p.m., Kristine Manues came home and noticed the smell of gas, so she went to a neighbor's house. Within five minutes of leaving her home, infant in her arms, an explosion rocked the neighborhood.