On June 17, 2004, Officer Harley Alfred Chisholm, 40, was killed while serving with the Birmingham Police Department. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Chisholm had been with the department six years and worked as a Field Training Officer at the West Precinct. He and three other officers went to an Ensley apartment that day to serve a misdemeanor assault warrant at a residence described as a drug house.

Officers Chisholm and Carlos Owen entered through the back door to arrest Nathaniel Woods. Woods resisted, ran toward the front of the apartment where Officer Charles R. Bennett was positioned, and at that moment Kerry Spencer opened fire with a high-powered SKS rifle. The ambush killed Officers Chisholm, Owen, and Bennett; a fourth officer, Michael Collins, was wounded. A tactical team later took Spencer and several others into custody.

Both Kerry Spencer and Nathaniel Woods were charged with capital murder; prosecutors said Spencer was the gunman and Woods an accomplice who lured the officers. Nathaniel Woods was executed by lethal injection on March 5, 2020; Kerry Spencer remains on death row. Does anyone have memories of Officer Chisholm or information about the Ensley scene that could add context to this case?