Milus Terry Lyles, a 32-year-old Charlotte police officer, was killed on August 5, 1990. He had been in law enforcement just over two and a half years when a man he had arrested produced a .22 caliber handgun that had been concealed in his underwear and fired from the backseat of the patrol car while handcuffed. Officer Lyles was struck twice in the back of his bullet-proof vest. After the patrol car crashed into an embankment, the suspect shot Officer Lyles in the head as he fled the vehicle.

The shooter was an ex-convict released in 1984 after serving seven years for manslaughter. He was apprehended and initially sentenced to death; that sentence was later overturned because a juror in the first trial believed the defendant had to prove his innocence. At a retrial the defendant was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole on April 8, 1994. Officer Lyles is survived by his wife, parents, two brothers, two sisters, and a stepdaughter.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Lyles or information about the investigation that could add to the record?