On the night of May 8, 2006, 46-year-old Philadelphia Police Officer Gary Frank Skerski was working overtime as part of Operation Safer Streets when he responded to an armed robbery call at Pat’s Cafe in the Frankford neighborhood. As he approached the cafe near Arrott and Adams Avenues, a man exiting the establishment opened fire with a shotgun, striking Officer Skerski in the neck. He was taken to Temple University Hospital and died shortly before midnight.

The shooting triggered a major manhunt. Investigators tracked a tip to an East Germantown apartment where the suspect, Solomon Montgomery, was believed to be hiding. A confrontation there left Montgomery wounded by gunfire and then in police custody. In October 2007 Montgomery, then 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, attempted murder and multiple robbery counts and received life without parole; family members testified he had admitted robbing the bar and killing the officer.

Did anyone in the neighborhood recognize the suspect or notice suspicious activity around Pat’s Cafe that night?