Detective Noel Don Mcguire, 23, was killed during a traffic stop in Little Rock in the pre-dawn hours of May 14, 1980. Mcguire, a five-year veteran of the Little Rock Police Department, stopped a yellow Jeep at Roosevelt and Arch after it ran a red light; the two occupants had just committed an armed robbery in a neighboring county and had shot the store clerk there. As Mcguire questioned them and walked back toward his patrol car, one of the suspects stepped out and opened fire. Mcguire was shot in the back, leg, and stomach, managed to call for help, but died after being taken to the University of Arkansas Medical Center.

The pair fled but were captured about five hours later at an Oklahoma roadblock. The suspects, 15-year-old Edward Eugene Little and 16-year-old David Russell Butler, were later identified; investigators concluded Little was the shooter. Both were convicted of first-degree murder and received life sentences for Mcguire’s killing.

Is there anyone who remembers details from that night or the subsequent manhunt who might add context to the case?