Stephen Levi Amos II was a 24-year-old police officer killed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after being struck by sniper fire on February 27, 1995. He and his partner, Senior Police Officer John Pratt, were responding to reports of shots fired at a nearby apartment complex when the sniper fired. Amos was hit as he exited the patrol car to take cover and died the next day after being transported to a local hospital.

The person convicted in Amos’s killing had been sentenced to death and was scheduled for execution on February 27, 2004; a U.S. District Court Judge issued an indefinite stay, and the convicted individual later died in prison on December 5, 2008. In September 2018 a bridge on U.S. 158 over North Beltway Drive was renamed the Officer Stephen Levi Amos II Bridge in his memory.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Amos, his service, or the events that night to share with the community?