On the evening of February 18, 1994, Officer David C. Douglass, Sr., a 34-year-old patrolman with the Lower Township Police Department, was dispatched to a suspicious person call in the North Cape May section. The subject was 49-year-old Chung Ho, who had burglarized his employer’s home on Town Bank Road and set the house on fire after being fired earlier that day. Douglass pursued Ho on foot; Ho turned and fired, mortally wounding the officer.

Douglass returned fire, striking Ho in the hand, radioed for assistance from his patrol vehicle, but succumbed to his injuries. Douglass had served 18 years with the department and was also a lieutenant and president of the Town Bank Volunteer Fire Department. A multiagency investigation led to Ho’s arrest in New York City in April 1994; in 1995 Ho pleaded guilty to felony murder and received a life sentence.

Did anyone in North Cape May at the time recall seeing or reporting the suspicious person that night?