On the morning of May 17, 1996, 48-year-old Metro Nashville Police Officer Francis Paul Scurry was shot and killed while backing up detectives serving an aggravated assault warrant at an apartment in Madison. A maintenance worker kicked in the door after there was no response; one suspect emerged and was arrested. A second suspect was found hiding behind a broken shelf leading to an attic crawl space. Officer Scurry and another officer entered the attic and were immediately fired upon. The other officer was hit in the knee; Scurry was struck multiple times but managed to return fire and seriously wound the gunman.

The wounded suspect left the attic, continued firing, and officers arriving to assist faced him in the apartment. Although the gunman reportedly shouted that he would surrender, he would not drop his weapon and attempted to reload; a responding officer then fired a shotgun, killing him. An officer began CPR on Officer Scurry in the attic, but the ceiling collapsed during those efforts and both fell to the floor below. Scurry was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. He left a daughter, mother, two sisters, and a brother.

Are there readers who remember this case or who can provide further details about the events that morning?