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Seattle cop killer Chris Monfort dies in prison

Jan 18, 2017, 12:31 PM

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Christopher Monfort, the man who killed a Seattle police officer in 2009, died in prison, according to a Department of Corrections email obtained by KIRO 7 News. (Josh Kerns/KIRO Radio)

(Josh Kerns/KIRO Radio)

Christopher Monfort, the man who killed a Seattle police officer in 2009, has died in prison, according to a Department of Corrections email obtained by KIRO 7 News.

Monfort’s been in the Walla Walla penitentiary since his sentence in 2015. According to the DOC, he was found unresponsive in his cell on Tuesday morning.

Related: Cop killer Christopher Monfort sentenced to life in prison

Paramedics arrived and pronounced him dead; the death is not viewed as suspicious or that it was self harm. Officials are waiting on the coroner’s report to find out what happened.

Monfort was 41 when he killed Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night 2009.

He was also found guilty of attempted murder for shooting Brenton’s partner, Britt Sweeney, and arson for destroying vehicles at a city maintenance yard weeks before the fatal attack.

After the murder, Monfort was in a wheelchair when a bullet lodged in his back during a shootout with police.

He told the court during his sentencing that he was sorry for the family, and that he realized he had killed a good man.

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