On the evening of July 5, 2005, Sergeant William Leo McEntee, 43, a twenty-year veteran and father of three, was shot and killed while seated in his patrol vehicle on Alsobrook Street in the Meacham Park neighborhood of Kirkwood, Missouri. McEntee had been responding to reports of fireworks and was speaking with a young child when a 19-year-old, Kevin Johnson, approached from the passenger side and opened fire. McEntee’s cruiser crashed into a tree after the initial shots; witnesses say Johnson returned to the disabled vehicle, fired additional shots that fatally wounded the sergeant, took his service weapon, and fled.

Johnson evaded capture for three days before being found at an apartment complex in St. Louis County and taken into custody. His first trial ended in a mistrial; a second trial in 2007 resulted in a conviction for first-degree murder and a jury recommendation of the death penalty, which the judge imposed. Over the following years Johnson’s legal team filed appeals and sought clemency while the conviction and sentence were upheld.

Does anyone have information about McEntee’s last patrol or witnesses from Meacham Park that night?