Gary Lee Williams, a 37-year-old San Antonio Police Department officer, was shot and killed on March 27, 1989, while responding to a suspicious vehicle call on NE Loop 410 at about 3 am. He had been dispatched to check an abandoned car parked behind a closed restaurant. When a car pulled into the road, the occupants exited and a scuffle followed; the assailants took his service weapon and shot him twice, in the lower abdomen and the neck.

Patrolman Williams was transported to Brooke Army Medical Center and died during surgery. He had served three years with the department and is survived by his wife, two sons, parents, and sister. Williams managed to retrieve one of the subjects’ driver’s licenses and entered a license plate into the computer, information that led to the suspects being identified as brothers Julian Hernandez, 28, and David Henry Hernandez, 25, both of San Antonio. The brothers were named in capital warrants; Julian Hernandez was later sentenced to 55 years and David Henry Hernandez to 10 years for aggravated assault.

Was anyone in the area that night aware of the abandoned vehicle or the interaction on NE Loop 410?