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On May 20, 2010, a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas, ended in an ambush that killed two West Memphis officers. Officer Thomas William ’Bill’ Evans, 38, pulled over a white minivan driven by Jerry Kane with his 16-year-old son Joseph Kane as a passenger. Sergeant Brandon Paudert, 39, arrived to assist. During the stop Jerry Kane struggled with Evans while Joseph Kane emerged from the van with an AK-47 and opened fire. Sergeant Paudert was killed at the scene; Officer Evans was taken to a hospital and later died of his wounds.

Jerry and Joseph Kane fled and were found about 90 minutes later in a Walmart parking lot in West Memphis. A second shootout with responding law enforcement left both Kanes dead and wounded two other officers. Investigators later linked the Kanes to the sovereign citizens movement and reported their extremist anti-government beliefs.

Does anyone have memories of that stretch of I-40 or the Walmart lot that could shed light on the timeline between the initial stop and the suspects being located?