The handgun was listed in an inventory of items seized as evidence from the apartment where Harold McCord was hiding after his escape from the Pierce County courthouse, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News North Sound Bureau Chief Anna Velasquez said.

Earlier Friday, questions were raised about whether McCord was armed during the raid, and there were reports the officer wounded in the shooting may have been hit by another officer.

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Citing unnamed sources, The Herald of Everett and The Seattle Times reported that Eduardo "Ed" Jany apparently was wounded by a round from a high-powered AR-15 rifle fired by another Monroe officer.

The Herald reported that Jany was trying to pull his police dog, a German shepherd named Chico, to safety at the time. The dog was slightly bruised and escaped serious injury.

There has been no official word on whether Harold McCord Jr., who used a fake gun made of cardboard to flee the Pierce County Courthouse on Monday, was armed when he was shot to death Tuesday after eight officers forced their way into an apartment in Monroe.

Police Mum On Reports No Gun Found

The Times reported that no gun belonging to McCord had been found.

"Our detectives want to have the opportunity to speak with the officers involved in the incident before we respond to what did happen or didn't happen," Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Jorgensen told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

McCord, 36, died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the King County medical examiner's office reported Thursday. A spokesman would not say how many times McCord had been shot.

He faced life imprisonment under Washington's "three strikes" law for repeat violent offenders,

Jany, 39, wounded in the finger and forearm, was released from a hospital Wednesday.

The resident of the apartment, Eliza "Maggie" Kruse, has been jailed for investigation of rendering criminal assistance with bail set at $100,000.

Kruse, 51, was linked to the case through James Malone Mathis, who she married April 10 and whose brother, Walter O. Mathis, is McCord's stepfather, said Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer.

According to a jail booking report, James Mathis told Kruse during a visit Monday that McCord was in trouble and "hiding from the law," and she agreed to help him elude capture and obtain Canadian identification, The Times reported.

Both Mathises are serving prison terms in the state reformatory at Monroe as members of the "Parkland Seven," a gang that made off with $45,000 from a Parkland bank on Oct. 6, 1977, and fatally shot Pierce County sheriff's Deputy Kenneth Moran. Only $2,500 of the money was recovered.

Investigators are looking into the possibility that the cardboard gun was not made by McCord but was smuggled to him, Troyer said Thursday.

"There were a lot of family members and associates in the courtroom that day," Troyer said. "We ... didn't find evidence in the jail cell of any of the materials" used to make the simulated weapon.

When asked whether Snohomish County authorities knew of the link to the 1977 case, Troyer said, "We didn't realize that till afterward. We didn't start figuring that out till we ID'd all the players."

McCord was convicted in May of first-degree kidnapping, felony harassment and resisting arrest. He was convicted of two counts of second-degree robbery in 1988 and five counts of first-degree robbery in 1991.

On June 13, he was sentenced to life in prison.