On a January morning in 1989, NYPD Officer William Gunn, 28, was part of a detective team searching for a suspect in two Brooklyn murders. As the officers approached the suspect’s Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, the man, identified as Ralph Richardson, burst out and opened fire, wounding a detective. Gunn ran to assist his colleague and was shot in the head.

Richardson escaped the immediate scene, killed a 67-year-old woman who lived in a nearby apartment, and sparked a week-long manhunt during which he committed several robberies. After being wounded by an off-duty officer during an attempted robbery, Richardson later took his own life while trapped in a stolen car that night. Gunn survived in a coma for nearly four years and died of his injuries on November 27, 1992, at age 32.

Gunn had served ten years with the NYPD and was posthumously promoted to Detective and awarded the department’s Medal of Honor. A Brooklyn street and a playground were dedicated in his name. Does anyone have memories of Gunn or information about that 1989 manhunt to share?