On the night of December 12, 1983, Patrolman Phillip Allen Miller, 27, responded to an intrusion alarm at Westport High School in Kansas City, Missouri. Arriving just before midnight, he saw a person fleeing and chased on foot to a nearby residential street. The pursuit ended inside an open garage in a physical struggle during which the suspect gained control of Miller’s service revolver and a single shot struck Miller in his side through a gap between his vest panels.

Phillip Miller, a five-year veteran of the Kansas City Police Department, died in the early hours of December 13, 1983. He was a husband and father to a daughter. About a year later investigators recovered Miller’s stolen service weapon and arrested Ronnie Trotter, who was charged, convicted and given two consecutive life terms for Miller’s murder.

Did anyone in the community remember activity near that garage on the night of December 12, 1983, or see the suspect fleeing the school?