Deputy William Thomas Bishop, 42, was killed on May 2, 1997 while performing a routine inmate transport in Somerville, Tennessee. Bishop, a seven-year veteran of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, had taken two inmates to a local dentist’s office when one of the inmates, who had concealed a small handgun, forced the dentist to call Bishop into an exam room. The inmate shot Bishop once in the back and then again in the head, killing him at the clinic.

The shooting prompted an immediate manhunt; the suspect was captured after a brief chase. He was charged with Bishop’s murder, tried, and convicted in November 1998. The conviction resulted in a death sentence.

Are there details about the transport procedures that anyone familiar with the department or the clinic remembers from that time?