Lieutenant Coy N. Smith was 61 and a 28-year veteran when he was killed during a traffic stop in Montgomery, Alabama, on a summer day in 1994. Serving with the Alabama Public Service Commission, he was relaying a vehicle’s license plate to dispatch when the driver—already wanted in the murders of a police officer in Greenville, Alabama, and a sheriff’s deputy in Pearl River County, Mississippi—opened fire and struck Smith in the head.

The shooting intensified a multi-state manhunt. Later that same day, surrounded by federal agents, the suspect died by suicide, ending the immediate search but not the loss suffered by Lt. Smith and the other slain officers.

Does anyone have memories of Lt. Smith or information about that day that could add to the understanding of what happened?