Deputy Sheriff Gregory Hans, 48, was shot and killed in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 10, 1997. Hans had served with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for seven years. He stopped at the scene of a domestic dispute near 2nd Street and Southern Heights Avenue before Louisville police arrived. While seated in his patrol car the suspect ambushed him; during a struggle the assailant gained control of Hans’s service weapon and shot him. Hans was wearing his protective vest, was taken to a local hospital, and died of his injuries.

The suspect, identified as Vincent Stopher, was found a short time later walking down the street and arrested after a brief struggle. Stopher was on parole at the time; his record included at least 17 arrests since 1990 and a prior sentence that had included three years of a twelve-year term for beating a man and stealing credit cards. Stopher was tried, convicted, and on February 14, 1998, sentenced to death. Hans was survived by a son and two daughters; in 2017 he was posthumously awarded the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Medal of Honor, accepted by his son.

Does anyone have information about Hans’s final call or about witnesses who were near 2nd Street and Southern Heights Avenue that day?