Nicholas Nor Davis was 39 and a seven-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department when he was killed in the early morning hours of December 18, 1984. After finishing breakfast at the International House of Pancakes on East Madison Street, he and a restaurant employee went to check on a patron who had left without paying. They located Michael Robert Trott in a nearby parking lot at 10th Avenue and East Madison Street.

Trott attacked him as he exited the vehicle, wrestled away Davis’s service weapon and shot him once in the chest and once in the back as Davis tried to take cover. Trott fled but was apprehended shortly afterward inside a nearby building after discarding the gun. Davis was taken to Harborview Medical Center, where he died. He was survived by his wife and three sons.

What details about that night or the people involved might help shed more light on how events escalated so quickly?