Sherman Ray Walker, 32, was shot and killed in an ambush outside his home on Little Emilie Street in Garyville, Louisiana. A Detective Lieutenant with the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office and a U.S. Army Vietnam veteran, he had served eight years with the department. As he was entering his unmarked patrol car, multiple gunshots from the darkness struck him in the back, and the shooters fled, leaving a grieving wife and three children.

Investigators focused on people who might have held a grudge against Walker. Within a couple of months three suspects were arrested; two were adults with extensive records and one was a juvenile at the time. The three men admitted they planned and carried out the killing in retaliation for Walker having arrested one of them several times. All three pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. The shooter received 99 years, one accomplice received 21 years and was later released in 1995, and the juvenile received 40 years.

Did anyone in Garyville remember tensions between Lieutenant Walker and known offenders, or have information about the events leading up to the ambush?