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Officer James Russell Sorrow, 26, was killed while attempting to serve a felony warrant in Greenville, South Carolina. On September 19, 1996, he chased a 20-year-old suspect on foot to the corner of Gower and Endel Streets, where the suspect lay in wait and ambushed him from behind a shed. The suspect, identified as Joseph Sheppard, opened fire; Officer Sorrow was struck multiple times, including two shots to the face, one to the buttocks, and four to the back of the head. He had not drawn his weapon during the encounter. A witness called for help, and a six-day manhunt followed before Sheppard was located and arrested at a local motel.

Officer Sorrow had served four years with the department and left behind a wife and a five-month-old son. The Greenville Police Department later retired his badge and locker and established the Russ Sorrow Award in his memory. What details about that day might help piece together how the ambush was planned and carried out?