On the evening of August 29, 2002, Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Deputy Elizabeth Licera Magruder, 30, was shot and killed while attempting to serve an emergency psychiatric petition at a home in the 9300 block of Lynmont Drive in Adelphi, Maryland. She and her partner, Sergeant James Arnaud, had gone to the residence after the subject of the petition, 23-year-old James Ramiah Logan, reportedly displayed escalating erratic and paranoid behavior.Arriving at about 9:30 p.m., the deputies encountered Logan, who had retreated to a back bedroom. As they tried to talk him out, Logan opened fire with a handgun.

Sergeant Arnaud was struck in the throat; Deputy Magruder was fatally wounded by a shot to the back of the head. Logan fled, prompting a manhunt, and was arrested two days later about two miles away; the handgun used was recovered.This was the first line-of-duty death in the 306-year history of the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department. Deputy Magruder had served 18 months and left behind a husband and a 3-year-old son.

Does anyone have memories of Deputy Magruder or information about that night that could add to the record?