Officer Constantine George ’Gus’ Spanos was shot during a traffic stop in the early morning hours of April 22, 1993, in the 5800 block of North Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had been a member of the Tulsa Police Department for about a year and a half. A backup officer arriving shortly after found Spanos lying next to his patrol car with a gunshot wound to the head; he was transported to a hospital and died the next day, April 23, 1993.

The suspect fled the state after the shooting but was later located, arrested and convicted of Spanos’s murder. The defendant was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Subsequent requests by the convicted individual for additional DNA testing were denied by the court, which ruled there was insufficient evidence that further testing would have altered the verdict.

If anyone remembers the traffic stop or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.