Officer Maylond Thompson Bishop Jr. was a Guntersville, Alabama police officer who was shot on July 16, 1993 while responding to a domestic disturbance. The White/Caucasian male officer was struck by a single gunshot just below his vest; the bullet lodged in his spine and left him paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair.

Bishop had served five years with the Guntersville Police Department after earlier work with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office. He lived with severe medical complications from the spinal injury for more than sixteen years before those complications caused his death on January 1, 2010. The person who shot him was arrested and later received a 70-year prison sentence for the attack.

Did anyone in the community know Officer Bishop or remember the 1993 shooting and its aftermath?