Robert L. Zore was a 25-year-old Metro-Dade Police Department detective who was killed on December 24, 1983, in South Miami, Florida. Working in plainclothes as part of a unit monitoring retail crime for the holidays, he responded to a reported robbery at Dadeland Shopping Mall. He located a suspect in a commuter lot at SW 80th Street and 71st Avenue, and during the encounter the suspect disarmed Detective Zore and shot him in the stomach with the officer’s own weapon.

Despite his injury, Detective Zore called 911 from a nearby payphone and was taken to a hospital, where he died during surgery early the next morning. He had served three years with the department and was assigned to the Hot Spot Squad. The suspect, a 25-year-old man, was arrested shortly after the incident, charged with Zore’s murder and later sentenced to life in prison.

Detective Zore left a wife and a six-year-old daughter. Does anyone have memories of Detective Zore or information about his service that could add to the record?