Officer Thomas Layton Jeffries, 35, was shot during a July 20, 1997, confrontation in Portland, Oregon. He and another officer had stopped a vehicle tied to the shooting of a seven-year-old child near NE Glisan Street and NE 160th Avenue when Jeffries exited his patrol car and was struck in the chest just above his protective vest. Mortally wounded, he returned fire and wounded the suspect in the leg; Jeffries died the next day, July 21, 1997.

A canine unit later found and arrested the suspect, identified as Eufronio Hernandez-Hernandez. The investigation determined he was a Mexican national in the United States without legal status. In November 1998, Hernandez-Hernandez was convicted in Multnomah County Circuit Court on multiple counts including the aggravated murder of Officer Jeffries.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Jeffries or information from that July 1997 incident that could add context to what happened that day?