On the afternoon of January 10, 1989, Jefferson County Police Department veteran Frank W. Pysher Jr., 43, was shot and killed while on duty on the interchange of I-265 and Smyrna Road in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Pysher, a husband, father and grandfather who had served with the department for more than 17 years, had stopped to speak with a man reported to be armed with a rifle. The man, identified as Mark Daniel Sallee, raised a .22 caliber rifle and fired twice, striking Officer Pysher in the head. Pysher’s patrol car crossed into oncoming traffic and stopped against a guardrail; he was taken to a local hospital and died of his wounds.

Sallee had a documented history of mental illness, including a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and had been discharged from the Army for mental health reasons. He was apprehended after the shooting and subsequently found incompetent to stand trial and committed to a state mental institution.

Did anyone in the area around I-265 and Smyrna Road that day notice anything about the encounter or the man walking along the interchange?