On the afternoon of September 13, 1979, Alabama State Trooper David E. Temple, 36, was shot and killed on Highway 20 near Mooresville while attempting to stop a car linked to an earlier Decatur used-car lot robbery. Temple had followed the suspect vehicle for about two miles while waiting for backup. When he pulled alongside to make the arrest, the driver fired, wounding him; the shooter then exited the car, walked to Temple on the roadway, and shot him several more times before fleeing.

Investigators later identified a .44-caliber handgun as the weapon used. The escape led to a running confrontation toward Madison in which the same gunman wounded a Madison police officer; that officer returned fire and killed the attacker. Court records from the Decatur robbery name Edwin Ledbetter and an accomplice identified as Brashers as the two participants. Brashers was described in those records as having been killed in a confrontation with law enforcement soon after the robbery, while Ledbetter was tried and convicted for the robbery.

Who has information about Trooper Temple’s last movements or the events on Highway 20 that afternoon?