On the night of July 18, 1992, off-duty Police Officer Paul Heidelberger, 28, was killed while trying to break up a fight that had spilled out of a Bayside, Queens nightclub. Heidelberger, a six-year veteran of the New York City Housing Authority Police Department, was escorting some of the men involved to their cars when a nearby bouncer, Patrick Bannon, returned with a 9mm handgun and fired on the group.

Heidelberger and another man, John Camarta, were struck by the initial gunfire and fell. Bannon then walked over to the wounded men and shot them both in the head; Heidelberger died at the scene. A third man was also wounded. Bannon fled but was apprehended several days later; he claimed self-defense, a claim witnesses disputed. He was convicted of one count of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree manslaughter and given a sentence of 30 years to life.

Did anyone who remembers that night, or who knew Officer Heidelberger, see something that wasn’t reported at the time?