On December 16, 1992, 27-year-old Ronald Edward Dean, a narcotics officer with the Shreveport Police Department and a five-year veteran, was killed during a warrant service at the Pines Apartments on Line Avenue. Dean had been the tactical officer who breached the apartment door with a battering ram when the apartment’s sole occupant opened fire with a .357 magnum. A single bullet entered between the side panels of Dean’s protective vest and lodged in his chest. He was taken to the hospital but died about an hour later. A second officer was wounded in the leg, and the shooter was also shot and wounded by officers at the scene and taken into custody. The shooter was later convicted of first-degree murder and given life without parole.

What additional details about that night or about Officer Dean’s service might help shed light for readers who remember him or the incident?