Sergeant Robert Brandon Paudert, 39, was killed while on duty during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 in West Memphis, Arkansas, on the morning of May 20, 2010. A seven-year veteran of the West Memphis Police Department and the son of the city’s police chief, he was providing backup to Officer Bill Evans when the stop of a white minivan with Ohio plates turned violent. Kane Jr. and his 16-year-old son Joseph T. Kane. During a struggle the younger Kane produced an AK-47 variant and opened fire; Sergeant Paudert was struck multiple times and died at the scene, and Officer Evans later died at the hospital.

The Kanes fled and were found about 90 minutes later in a Walmart parking lot, where a second shootout with law enforcement left both suspects dead and two other officers seriously wounded. No arrests were made because the suspects were killed. If anyone remembers the events that morning or has information about the Kanes’ movements before the traffic stop, please come forward.