Albee Volney Forney was 57 when he was killed while on duty at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. On July 24, 1991, Officer Forney and an Army nurse entered a room at Delano Hall student barracks on Main Drive, NW, to tell a retired staff sergeant that he needed to leave. Shortly after 4:45 p.m., the man opened fire; Forney was struck in the chest and the nurse was wounded in the abdomen. Other officers who heard the shots rushed in, took the shooter into custody, and transported Forney to the emergency room, where he died about an hour later.

The retired staff sergeant was arrested and charged, including a count of murder of an officer of the United States. In 1993 he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and was committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Does anyone have memories of Officer Forney or information about the incident that could help fill in unanswered details?