The Seattle police officer who survived the shooting Halloween night that killed her partner is being honored by Q13′s Washington Most Wanted television show.

Officer Britt Sweeney will be awarded the show’s Officer of the Month for November on the episode that airs tonight at 10:30 p.m.

Sweeney also gives her first public interview since the Oct. 31 shooting that killed Seattle officer Timothy Brenton.

“Officer Sweeney will talk about what made her become a police officer, how she’s doing since the shooting, how the shooting has changed her and much more,” the show announced in a press …

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King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced this morning he will file aggravated murder charges – the state’s highest crime – against the man accused of killing a Seattle police officer Oct. 31.

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Christopher Monfort could face the death penalty if convicted of aggravated first-degree murder.

The memorial events today for slain Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton have begun in Seattle. Dozens of Pierce County-area law enforcement officers are participating. You can find a gallery of photographs here.

Honor guard members from the Tacoma Police and Pierce County Sheriff’s departments as well as traffic officers are in attendance. Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor and deputies who went to the academy with Brenton also are attending. The Lakewood Police Department sent 18 officers.

Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer said some sheriff’s deputies are working in south King County today so that King County sheriff’s …

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