Robert W. Wood, a 27-year-old Dallas Police Department officer and United States Army Vietnam veteran, was shot and killed on November 28, 1986, while on duty. Officer Wood and his partner had stopped a vehicle for driving without headlights in the 3400 block of North Hampton Road. As Officer Wood approached, the driver shot him five times with a .22 caliber handgun.

An arrest produced a conviction and a death sentence that was later overturned; that defendant spent 12 years incarcerated before release. Another man, who had testified against the first defendant as a state’s witness and who never admitted to Officer Wood’s killing, provided information to detectives and remained a prime suspect; that man was later convicted of an unrelated murder and executed on June 30, 2004. Officer Wood had served two years with the Dallas Police Department, was survived by his wife, and is buried at Carson Cemetery in Ector, Texas.

The case was examined in the 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line, which drew attention to the overturned conviction. Does anyone have information about the shooting or about witnesses who were at North Hampton Road that night?