TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The getaway driver in the coffee shop shooting deaths of four Lakewood, Wash., police officers, Dorcus Allen, was sentenced Friday in Tacoma to 420 years in prison.
The News Tribune reports that during the sentencing the 40-year-old Arkansas native maintained his innocence. His defense attorneys vowed to appeal.
A jury convicted Allen in May of being an accomplice to four counts of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Allen drove Maurice Clemmons to and from the Parkland coffee shop on Nov. 29, 2009, when Clemmons gunned down the four officers.