On a Friday evening in September 2004, Detective Robert Parker, 43, was fatally wounded during an arrest attempt in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Parker and his partner, Detective Patrick Rafferty, were responding to a domestic violence call about a son allegedly trying to steal his mother’s car. The detectives drove onto East 49th Street and blocked the vehicle; a violent struggle followed and the suspect, Marlon Legere, wrested Parker’s service weapon away and opened fire. Both detectives were shot and taken to Kings County Hospital, where they later died.

Legere fled after carjacking a minivan but was captured less than two hours later a few blocks from the scene after a citizen reported a suspicious person. He was charged with multiple counts, including first-degree murder; at trial he asserted self-defense, a claim the jury rejected, and he was convicted and later received two life terms without parole. Detective Parker, a 22-year NYPD veteran, was posthumously awarded the NYPD Medal of Honor.

If anyone knew Detective Parker or has information about that night, please share what you know.