A routine medical response at the Valley Transit Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, on the evening of May 15, 2019, ended in gunfire and the death of 36-year-old firefighter Mitchell Lundgaard. First responders had been treating 47-year-old Ruben Houston for a suspected overdose; after Houston was revived with Narcan and left the bus, officers attempted a pat-down. Houston then produced a concealed handgun and began shooting. Lundgaard, a 14-year veteran of the Appleton Fire Department, was struck and later died at a hospital. Officer Paul Christensen and a female bystander, Brittany Schowalter, were also wounded. Houston was shot by police and later pronounced dead.

Investigators later reported that two Appleton officers, Sergeant Christopher Biese and Officer Paul Christensen, discharged their weapons, and the Outagamie County District Attorney ruled the officers justified in using deadly force. Houston had an extensive criminal record and was out on bond on pending drug charges. Lundgaard was remembered as a devoted husband to his wife Lindsey and father to three young sons and the department’s first line-of-duty fatality in 86 years.

Are there details readers recall from that night or information about Mitchell’s work and family that could help preserve his memory?