On May 28, 1992, 28-year-old Special Agent George Douglas Althouse of the Drug Enforcement Administration was shot and killed in Inverness, Alabama. Althouse was a passenger in an undercover Z-28 Camaro that had been stopped at a service station with Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy Naylor Braswell. While Braswell went inside, four local car thieves targeted the vehicle. Eugene Milton Clemons II, armed with a revolver, got into the driver’s seat and ordered Althouse out; as Althouse complied, Clemons shot him twice. Fatally wounded, Althouse managed to draw his weapon and fire as the assailant attempted to flee, but he died at the scene.

The stolen Camaro was recovered the next day near the home of one accomplice. Clemons fled the state and was later arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, where he reportedly confessed to an uncle that he had shot a police officer. Two accomplices have been identified as Dedrick Smith and Kenny Reed. Clemons and at least one accomplice were convicted in connection with the killing, and Clemons received life in federal prison and a subsequent state sentence.

If anyone remembers Althouse, Deputy Braswell, the Camaro, or saw suspicious activity near the Inverness service station that evening, please share what is known.