Carlos Ray Warren was a 30-year-old Texas Highway Patrol trooper who was shot and killed on March 5, 1991, while attempting to intervene in an abduction at a rural rest area on Highway 71 near Del Valle, Texas. The suspect was convicted of Trooper Warren’s murder and sentenced to prison, and has been denied parole multiple times with the next ineligibility noted as 2027.

Trooper Warren served five years with the Texas Highway Patrol and previously spent seven years as a special agent with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. He was a U.S. Army veteran and is survived by his parents, two daughters, and three brothers. Anyone who knew Trooper Warren or witnessed events at the Highway 71 rest area in March 1991 is asked to share what they know.