Sergeant Gregory Lei Hunter, 54, was killed on June 18, 2004, while responding to a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a Walmart on the I-20 Frontage Road in Grand Prairie, Texas. Store employees had reported a van parked overnight with its engine running; when the first officer made contact and received no response, he called his supervisor, Sergeant Hunter, to the scene. On arrival, the officers spoke with a man who gave a false name and acted evasively. As the other officer moved to block a possible escape, the suspect suddenly opened fire with a .45 caliber handgun, fatally wounding Sergeant Hunter.

The other officer, though wounded, returned fire and killed the suspect. Investigators later found an SKS rifle, two handguns, a fused pipe bomb, ammunition, and bomb components in the van. The man in the van was a fugitive awaiting trial in Kansas on charges including narcotics and alcohol violations, criminal possession of a weapon, and obstruction of legal process. Sergeant Hunter, the Grand Prairie Police Department’s first black sworn officer hired in 1973, is survived by his wife, daughter, mother, sister, and aunt.

Does anyone have information about Sergeant Hunter’s final call or the events at that Walmart lot that evening?