On July 9, 1987, Patrol Officer Clay Hoover, 24, was killed in Inkster, Michigan, during what began as a warrant service at a Michigan Avenue motel. Hoover and Officer Daniel Dubiel entered a motel room with a 68-year-old woman and her three sons to serve a bad-check warrant. Sergeant Ira Parker joined them after Dubiel suggested bringing a summons because one son had recently received kidney dialysis. While the officers waited, the suspects opened fire and all three officers were killed instantly.

The initial shooting led to a ten-hour standoff; the suspects barricaded themselves in the room and fired hundreds of rounds, preventing other officers from reaching the fallen. The woman and her three sons eventually surrendered and were arrested. A jury convicted all four of first-degree murder at a trial that began in May 1988; each received three life terms. If anyone knew Officer Hoover or has information about that day, please share what you know.