I’ve heard mention of this story before (on this site in fact) but they recently presented Officer Allshaw’s wife, Suzanne, with a Medal of Honor. There’s more on the SPD Blotter site as well as the In Memoriam page.
SPD Presents Medal of Honor to Family of Officer Killed Decades Ago
http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2012/03/20/spd-presents-medal-of-honor-to-family-of-officer-killed-decades-ago/More than forty years after Seattle police officer Robert Allshaw was killed in the line of duty during a robbery at a grocery store in North Seattle, Seattle Police Department Assistant Chief Mike Sanford and Lt. Donnie Lowe traveled to Indio, CA this week to present Officer Allshaw’s wife, Suzanne, with a Medal of Honor, recognizing her husband’s service to Seattle.
Officer Robert Allshaw was accidentally shot and killed by another police officer on November 11, 1968 during a robbery call at a grocery store in the Pinerhurst neighborhood of North Seattle.
I wonder where this happened. I think I recall once reading of a police officer death in the building on the southeast corner of 15th/117th which used to be a grocery store.