Nelson F. Bell was a Baltimore City Police Officer, husband and father of three, who died after being wounded during a shootout on October 22, 1978. Officer Bell had served about four and a half years when he responded that Sunday evening to the Trailways Bus Terminal on West Fayette Street after a call for backup about a man armed with a compound bow. The suspect was shot and killed in the exchange.

Officer Bell was found about 30 feet away with a severe gunshot wound to the head and was taken to the University of Maryland Hospital. He died five days later. The subsequent investigation concluded the fatal bullet was not fired by the suspect but was a police rifle round that ricocheted off the hallway walls and struck Bell, who was not in the direct line of fire of the suspect or other officers.

Did anyone who was at the Trailways Bus Terminal that night or who worked there remember details that could shed more light on how the ricochet occurred?