Detective Lynn Wayne Hicks, 35, was killed while responding to a call in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, on the evening of May 22, 1999. Although not dispatched, Hicks was in the area and chose to check on a domestic situation; as he exited his vehicle and approached the apartment building he was ambushed and shot in the head by a man lying in wait who had recognized him as a police officer. Hicks did not know a second individual was present at the scene.

The violence that day began about an hour earlier when one of the suspects had murdered his estranged wife. That suspect then went with a friend to the apartment of the friend’s estranged girlfriend intending to kill her; a 911 call from the residence brought officers to the scene, and Hicks’s decision to respond placed him in harm’s way. His actions are credited with likely saving the lives of five other people.

Two men, identified as 21-year-old Terry Messick and 24-year-old Travis Jones, fled after the shooting but were captured several hours later and later tried and convicted; both received life sentences without parole. Hicks was a 14-year law enforcement veteran, with seven years at the Goodlettsville Police Department, and is survived by a son and a daughter.

Did anyone in Goodlettsville or the surrounding area have contact with Detective Hicks or have information about the events that night?