Sean Michael Bolton was a 33-year-old Memphis police officer and former U.S. Marine who was shot and killed on the evening of August 1, 2015, while on patrol in the Parkway Village area of Memphis. He had served with the Memphis Police Department since October 2010 and was struck multiple times after approaching an illegally parked Mercedes-Benz. A passenger, later identified as Tremaine Wilbourn, emerged from the vehicle, fought with Officer Bolton, then produced a handgun and fired. Bolton was found wounded by a citizen and taken to a hospital, where he died.

Wilbourn fled the scene with the vehicle’s driver but turned himself in to U.S. Marshals two days later. Investigators found a small amount of marijuana in the car and concluded Bolton had likely interrupted a drug deal. Wilbourn, who was on federal probation for a prior bank robbery conviction at the time, was charged with first-degree murder and other felonies; a jury trial in November 2018 resulted in convictions and a sentence of life without parole plus additional years for related offenses.

Does anyone have information about Officer Bolton’s last known patrol route that could shed more light on the encounter?