On December 16, 2012, Corporal David Scott Gogian, 50, a Topeka Police Department officer, was shot and killed while on duty. Gogian and a fellow officer, Jeffrey Atherly, had been dispatched to a grocery store parking lot to check a suspicious vehicle when 22-year-old David Edward Tiscareno opened fire. Both Gogian and Atherly were struck; a third officer at the scene was unharmed. The shooter fled and a multi-agency search led to a house where Tiscareno barricaded himself.

The standoff continued into the morning of December 17, 2012, when Tiscareno emerged armed and was shot and killed by responding officers. Gogian was a U.S. Marine Corps and Kansas Air National Guard veteran, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant, and had served eight years as a full-time Topeka officer after time as a reserve. He was married and fathered four children, one of whom also served with the Topeka Police Department.

Did anyone in the community know Corporal Gogian or have details about his service or that night that could add context?