Eric Byron Streeter was a 37-year-old corporal with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office who died after being shot during an investigation on March 13, 1984, in Pensacola, Florida. While following five individuals he found acting suspiciously in a drug probe, Streeter blocked their vehicle in an alley on the 200 block of East Cross Street. One of the occupants opened fire, striking him three times; he was taken to Baptist Hospital and died two days later.

Five people were arrested on charges of aiding the shooter. The primary suspect, reported as a 22-year-old who had escaped from Escambia Prison about six months earlier, was caught in Tampa three weeks after the shooting, pleaded no contest, and received a life sentence with the possibility of parole. Streeter had served eight years with the Sheriff’s Office and was survived by his wife and children, including one child who later became a Florida State Trooper.