Timothy Brenton

Death by Force

On the night of October 31, 2009, Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, a 39-year-old Caucasian male, was fatally shot in an ambush. Brenton, a nine-year veteran of the department and a U.S. Army veteran of the Gulf War, was sitting in his patrol car with his trainee partner, Britt Sweeney, in the Leschi neighborhood. The two officers had just completed a traffic stop and were parked, discussing the interaction, when another vehicle pulled up alongside them. A man inside the car opened fire wi ...Read More

Police Officer Timothy Q. Brenton