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Officer Robert Joe Washington Sr., 37, was on patrol in Precinct 2 on the night of November 14, 1995. He cleared his last call near Highway 80 and Shaw Road around 9:00 p.m., but failed to report at the end of his shift at 10:00 p.m. His patrol car was later found parked in front of an abandoned house on Clinton Avenue. The next morning his body was discovered in the lot of the old Showtime Drive-In Theater off Highway 80; he had been shot multiple times.

Washington had served with the Jackson Police Department for 11 years and was survived by his wife, son, and numerous siblings. The investigation cooled for years, then in February 2007 a suspect, Sharrod Moore, was arrested and charged with capital murder based largely on witness testimony. Defense attorneys raised allegations of prosecutorial misconduct and noted that some witnesses who implicated Moore had been incarcerated at the time of the murder; files were reported missing or destroyed and detectives previously close to a solution had been transferred. Charges against Moore were dropped without prejudice in 2009 and the case remains officially unsolved.

Does anyone who was in the area that night or who knew Officer Washington have information that could help move this case forward?