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Sister: ‘Worst Nightmare Come True’

Tiffiny Ryan, left, sister of slain Lakewood police officer Tina Griswold, speaks to the media in Spokane alongside Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick during a press conference Monday, Nov. 30, 2009.  Ryan's sister was one of four officers gunned down in Lakewood Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 by a lone gunman who is still on the loose. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
Tiffiny Ryan, left, sister of slain Lakewood police officer Tina Griswold, speaks to the media in Spokane alongside Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick during a press conference Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Ryan's sister was one of four officers gunned down in Lakewood Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 by a lone gunman who is still on the loose. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)

Tiffiny Ryan, left, sister of slain Lakewood police officer Tina Griswold, speaks to the media in Spokane alongside Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick during a press conference this afternoon. (Jesse Tinsley/SR) 

The sister of a police officer shot to death in a Lakewood coffee shop made a tearful plea today for the arrest of the suspect. “My worst nightmare has come true,” said Tiffiny Ryan, who works in the records department at the Spokane Police Department. Standing with her husband, Spokane County sheriff’s deputy Beau Vucinich, Ryan described her sister, Tina Griswold, as “the world to me” and said she wants the killer “to know what he took from us.” Griswold and three colleagues were gunned down Sunday morning as they sat with their computers preparing for the day. Since the shooting, Spokane police have been told not to do reports or other computer work in public places/Meghann M. Cuniff, Sirens & Gavels. More here



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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