WEEKLY VOLCANO: TRAGEDY IN PIERCE COUNTY >>>

Three men and a woman from the Lakewood Police Department were shot dead in a Pierce County Forza Coffee shop this morning at 8:30 a.m. in what a Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman described as a "flat-out ambush."

Pierce County has set up an emergency Web site here.

The News Tribune is following the story.

If you have any information regarding this morning’s shooting, please call the tip line at 253.591.5959.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the four officers as well as those who witnessed the shooting.