In the early morning of May 19, 1987, Metropolitan Police Department Officer Robert Remington, 39, responded alone to a burglar alarm at a designer clothing store on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown as his shift neared its end. Inside the dimly lit shop he encountered two intruders. A struggle with one man led to the officer firing and wounding that suspect in the hand, but the other intruder overpowered Remington, disarmed him, forced him to his knees and shot him five times with his own service weapon.

Officer Remington was found by his backup and taken to a hospital, where his wounds proved fatal. A manhunt led to the capture of two suspects, Michael A. Perry Jr., 18, and Derwin B. Straite, 22; authorities concluded Perry struggled with and shot Remington while Straite served as a lookout during the burglary aimed at stealing sweatshirts. Both were convicted and received life sentences.

Did anyone in Georgetown at the time recall activity around that Wisconsin Avenue storefront in the days before the shooting?