On the evening of Thursday, February 25, 1982, Detroit Police Officer Frank X. Siemion, 39, was killed while responding to a burglary in progress at a liquor store on East Lafayette Street. Siemion, a decade-long veteran, was the first officer to enter the building by climbing security scaffolding and gaining access through a window. He handcuffed one suspect in a vacant apartment above the store and then approached a bathroom where a second suspect was hiding.

When Siemion kicked open the bathroom door, the 19-year-old suspect fired a single shot from a .38 caliber handgun. The bullet penetrated Siemion’s upper chest, deflected downward into his heart, and proved fatal despite his bulletproof vest. Fellow officers could not open the bathroom door and had to climb through the damaged window; they passed Siemion down in a human chain and rushed him into surgery, but he died five hours later. The shooter and two accomplices were arrested at the scene and charged with Siemion’s murder.

Does anyone have information about the three suspects or the subsequent criminal case that could shed light on what happened after the arrests?