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Grover Clifton Cooper was a 31-year-old lieutenant with the Fort Pierce Police Department who was killed during a drug raid on January 12, 1987, in White City near Fort Pierce, Florida. Cooper, Sergeant James Wouters and another officer entered a mobile home at Midway and Christianson Roads after arranging a small undercover cocaine buy. The officers announced themselves as police and were met with heavy gunfire; both Cooper and Wouters were struck. Cooper died before midnight and Wouters died the following afternoon after surgery.

The shooter was killed in the exchange of gunfire; one suspect fled and was never charged. A third suspect confessed to involvement in the drug transaction and received a concurrent sentence of 20 years for the murders and 15 years for drug charges. Cooper was survived by his wife, son and daughter and was posthumously promoted. The Fort Pierce Police Department later renamed its main station the Grover C. Cooper III, James A. Wouters Main Police Station on January 12, 2012.