Deputy Sheriff Barrett Travis Hill, 38, was killed on December 4, 2000, while responding to a report of suspects breaking into cars in a wooded area in the 900 block of Dunson Glen Drive in Houston. Hill and his field training officer pursued the suspects on foot after the suspects fled into the woods. Hill captured one suspect and radioed that he had him; moments later his training officer heard gunshots and could not reach Hill by radio. Hill was found shot in the face, chest, and hand and was pronounced dead at the scene despite wearing a vest.

The shooter then carjacked a woman at a nearby apartment complex and fled; a suspect was arrested later that morning about 75 miles away after being spotted by a deputy in another jurisdiction. Hill was a U.S. Army Gulf War veteran and had served about three and a half years as a jailer with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office; he was completing field training before becoming a patrol deputy and is survived by his wife, two daughters, parents, and siblings.

Questions remain about who fired the fatal shots and the evidence linking the arrested suspect to the killing; does anyone have information about Hill’s final call or the pursuit that morning?