Deputy Wallace Edward Davis, 48, was shot and killed while responding alone to a domestic disturbance on East Ennis Creek Road in Port Angeles, Washington, on August 5, 2000. Davis, a Clallam County Sheriff’s Department deputy who had moved to the area five years earlier after a long law enforcement career in Southern California, was reportedly ambushed on the porch and struck in the head by a 12-gauge shotgun. A neighbor who heard the gunshot alerted authorities; Davis was taken to Olympic Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:36 p.m.

The shooter, Thomas Martin Roberts, barricaded himself in the home and engaged law enforcement in a 25-hour standoff before surrendering. He was charged with aggravated first-degree murder, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity with a defense of schizophrenia, and was later found guilty by a jury in November 2002 and sentenced to life without parole. Deputy Davis was also a published author and left behind a pregnant wife and three children from previous marriages.

Did anyone in the Port Angeles area know Deputy Davis or have information about the events that led to that August 2000 disturbance?