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On January 12, 1998, 22-year-old Deputy Sheriff Kyle Wayne Dinkheller of the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office stopped a pickup near Dudley, Georgia, for speeding. The driver, 49-year-old Andrew Howard Brannan, became belligerent, danced in the road, and taunted the deputy. Body- and dash-mounted footage recorded the encounter as Brannan retrieved an M-1 carbine from his truck and a gunbattle followed.

Dinkheller wounded Brannan in the stomach but was struck multiple times and killed when Brannan fired a final shot into his eye. Brannan fled but was found the next morning hiding under a tarp and taken into custody. A jury later convicted Brannan of murder and sentenced him to death.

Are there officers, neighbors, or first responders who remember that stretch of road or the traffic stop that day and can share details about the scene or the aftermath?