In the summer of 1978 a domestic disturbance call on Conner Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, turned deadly when Officer Nelson I. Hess, V, was shot and killed while responding. Hess was 35 and a six-year veteran of the Chattanooga Police Department; he and his partner, Officer David Friederichsen, arrived at the scene on June 12. Two minutes after they reached the location a suspect opened fire with a .38 caliber handgun. Officer Hess was fatally wounded at the scene; his partner was struck as well and died three days later in a local hospital. The person who shot the officers was shot and killed at the scene. Hess left behind a wife, a son, his parents, and two brothers.

What details about that night or the people involved might help explain how events escalated so quickly?