Thomas Benton Worley was a 32-year-old Los Angeles County Safety Police officer who was killed on December 21, 1994. He was off duty and shopping with his wife at a shoe store at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Roscoe Boulevard when he intervened in an apparent robbery. After ordering the suspect, Jesus Mario Valenzuela, to the ground, Worley was shot; he returned fire and mortally wounded Valenzuela as well.

Worley had served about 1.5 years with the Safety Police. More than 1,000 relatives, friends, and colleagues attended his memorial and burial on December 29, 1994; the procession included 40 motorcycles and a large convoy of police vehicles to Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth, where he was buried with full honors, including a 21-gun salute and the playing of Taps. He was survived by his wife, Pam Worley, their two-year-old son, and a six-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. His mother, the Rev. Dorothy Worley, spoke at the service about his sense of justice and commitment to serving others.

Did anyone witness the confrontation at the store who can add detail about what happened in those moments?