Due to Google Wave's real time updating capabilities, this is actually a rather fitting use. People are posting everything they know, from information about the suspect (right down to his old pictures and Twitter accounts) to news from police scanners. A Google Map of the manhunt is also being maintained with the major events of the search.

We'll keep updating as new details appear for those wanting to keep up (and those without a Google Wave account). [Google Wave via Techcrunch]

Update 1:

Officers on alert at "every exit route out of Washington" looking for officer shooting suspect (source: @seattlepi)

Update 2: Miscellaneous information currently known about the suspect:

Suspect Description:
Maurice Clemmons
(Suspect may be using alias w/fake WA ID for Carsile Dawson)

2004 photo
Twitter photo

Suspect Vehicle Description:
green 1997 Mazda Millenia, WA license [License plate number removed, see update 5]
(vehicle is registered to suspect's wife)

Twitter account

Update 3: Note that a tip line is open for anyone with information regarding the shooting or the suspect's whereabouts: 866-977-236

Update 4:

Suspect reported near 13th and Lander.

Update 5:

Police no longer looking for '97 Mazda Millenia - WSP Trooper Brandy Kessler says it was sold 2 months ago (source: @KIRO7Seattle)

Update 6: The 13th and Lander report was deemed unrelated to this search.

"Plasma Pat" aka 60-year-old Joseph Wesley Torma, befriends people outside of Walmart stores and leads them to believe that he is an employee that can use his discount to score them a deal on a new TV set. With cash in hand, Torma walks into the store and sneaks away—leaving his victims hanging in the parking lot. If that wasn't bad enough, he has called the police on several occasions during his crime spree just to taunt them.

So far, Torma has conned victims in at least a dozen spots in Florida, but the police believe he may be on his way to Texas. So if you are a Walmart shopper in the Lone Star State—keep your eyes peeled for Plasma Pat. [CNN]