A Brooklyn patrol that began as a domestic-dispute response ended in the death of a young police officer. On the night of Tuesday, May 30, 1989, Police Officer Jeff B. Herman and a partner were sent to an apartment on Hawthorne Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens after reports that a man was menacing his ex-girlfriend and trying to force her to drop charges from an earlier kidnapping arrest. When the ex-girlfriend answered the door, the suspect appeared behind her and opened fire. The woman was struck in the back; the gunman then fired on the two officers. Officer Herman, 25, assigned to the 71st Precinct and a five-year NYPD veteran, was hit by three bullets. He and his partner returned fire and the suspect fled.

Herman was taken to Kings County Hospital and died of his wounds on Friday, June 2, 1989. Investigators located the suspect in a Bushwick apartment six days after the shooting; when officers moved in the man killed himself. Herman was survived by his wife and young son. Does anyone have memories of Officer Herman or information about the case that could add context to these events?