David Brian Kubly was a 23-year-old Los Angeles Police Department officer killed on September 27, 1979. He had been with the department for 18 months when he attempted to stop a vehicle that had run a red light. The driver, later identified as a robbery suspect, led officers on a short pursuit that ended when the suspect’s car crashed into a local business.

As the suspect emerged from the wrecked car he fired a 9 mm handgun, striking Officer Kubly in the chest. Kubly was taken to a nearby hospital and died of his wounds shortly afterward. The suspect, a 22-year-old man, was arrested about nine hours after the shooting; investigators determined the car was stolen and that several robberies had been committed earlier that day.

Officer Kubly was survived by his wife, parents, and three sisters, and his name is recorded on memorials to fallen officers. Did anyone in the community remember Officer Kubly or have details about the incidents that day?