Berisford Wayne Anderson, 37, was killed in Dorchester, Boston, on the afternoon of February 5, 1994. A 14-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, Anderson had finished his shift and returned to his Spencer Street home. After changing out of his uniform and not wearing his ballistic vest, he confronted a car driving the wrong way on the one-way street.

The driver, 18-year-old Dalton Simpson, was in a stolen vehicle and had just been involved in a hit-and-run a block away. After a brief exchange, Simpson produced a handgun and shot Anderson in the chest at point-blank range. Anderson retrieved his own .38 caliber handgun and returned fire as Simpson fled; Anderson collapsed with a single fatal gunshot wound to the chest.

A nearby Boston police officer spotted Simpson shortly afterward and, following a brief foot chase, apprehended him. Simpson was charged with Anderson’s murder; in March 1995 a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison. Anderson was a husband and father of five.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Anderson or additional details about that afternoon?