Dennis Wilbert Allen was a 24-year-old patrolman with the Four Oaks Police Department in North Carolina when he was shot and killed on June 3, 1977, while on duty. He had stopped a suspicious vehicle on a service road approaching I-95. The driver, who had minutes earlier committed a robbery and murdered another man, produced a .38 caliber revolver when Allen asked for identification and registration and shot him in the stomach, then shot him multiple times in the back as he lay on the ground.

The shooter and an accomplice fled but were later apprehended. The accomplice received a 32-year prison term and died in custody on January 17, 1989. The shooter pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life, and served 28 and a half years before being paroled in October 2006. Patrolman Allen, a Vietnam War veteran and Bronze Star recipient, had been with the Four Oaks Police Department for four months and left behind a wife and a 1-year-old son.

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