Patrol Officer Benjamin F. Grair Jr., 31, was shot and killed on August 5, 1983, while serving as a uniformed security guard at the Ameritrust Bank in Cleveland, Ohio. Grair, who had been with the Cleveland Division of Police for two years after seven years at Cleveland State University, was in full uniform and on the phone when a man approached and shot him without any exchange of words. He was taken to Euclid General Hospital and died there at 10:58 am that day.

The suspect, identified as Willie Lee Jester, a former bank employee, reportedly robbed the bank and fled; he was apprehended the next day and found in possession of a large sum of money. Reports say Jester was later convicted of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery and originally sentenced to death, with that sentence later commuted to life without parole. Grair was survived by his wife Barbara and siblings Joseph, Lee, and Renee.

The case attracted heavy community attention at the time and was credited to a tip from another security guard and public cooperation.