Patrolman Dave L. Alcox, 27, of the Oak Hill Police Department in Hitchcock, Ohio, was shot and killed on January 15, 1980, during a traffic stop on State Route 93. Alcox had stopped a vehicle driven by Lloyd Eugene Brofford, who was wanted in Jackson on bad-check charges. After a license check, Alcox asked Brofford to approach the patrol car; once they reached it Brofford shot Alcox in the chest and fled.

Additional units checked on Alcox when he failed to answer radio calls and found him lying outside the passenger side of his patrol car, dead from the gunshot wound. Brofford led officers on a vehicle pursuit and attempted to ram a roadblock before police opened fire on his vehicle and took him into custody. Brofford was tried in late March 1980; a jury found him guilty of aggravated murder and he received a life-without-parole sentence. Alcox had served three years with the department and was survived by his mother, sister, and brother; his department established a scholarship in his memory.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Alcox or information about the traffic stop that might shed light on the events that day?