UPDATE: A King County jury has reached a verdict for Christopher Monfort, the man accused of killing Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton in 2009.
The verdict will be read 9 a.m. Friday morning. Monfort's defense claims their client has delusional disorder and says he is not guilty by reason of insanity. Watch live coverage of the verdict on KING 5 News and KING5.com.
SEATTLE -- Jury deliberations resume Thursday morning in the Christopher Monfort murder trial. Monfort is accused of killing Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night in 2009.
It all took place when Timothy Brenton and his partner, Britt Sweeney were working the night shift in the East Precinct. They were randomly ambushed, Brenton was murdered, and Sweeney had a bullet graze the top of her head.
A week after the incident police arrested Christopher Monfort for Brenton's murder following an officer-involved shooting at a Tukwila apartment.
Sergeant George Davisson responded to the murder scene for one of his fellow officers.
"I had been to hundreds of homicide calls, hundreds of dead body calls, hundreds of shooting calls, but put somebody you work with at the other end of that and it has a whole different aspect to it," Davisson said. "It was pretty horrific."
The officer-involved shooting that led to Monfort's arrest happened the same day of Brenton's funeral. As the moving memorial came to an end chaos erupted at a Tukwila apartment. Sergeant Gary Nelson was there and he shared his experience at trial.
"What went through your mind?" he was asked. Nelson responded: "That I was going to die."
Nelson and a few other officers went to the Tukwila apartment to see if the most wanted car in Washington may be parked in the parking lot. There was a car that matched the image captured on surveillance belonging to the killer. When they arrived they learned it was the car they were looking for and the accused killer was on scene. Monfort was ready for a gunfight.
"Mr. Monfort had the gun completely raised shoulder height, head down like this, and rolled around that corner, and came directly at me with the gun like this," Nelson said. "He was going to shoot me if I didn't shoot him first, and I fired twice."
Monfort is now paralyzed from the waist down following the shooting. His defense has never argued that he is innocent, they just say he is not responsible because he is mentally ill.
If convicted, Monfort may face the death penalty. Monfort is also charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, as he's accused of trying to kill other officers, including Sweeney and Nelson.
