In the early morning hours of October 14, 1981, a high-speed chase through Atlantic City ended with the fatal shooting of 21-year-old patrolman Peter Francis Egnor. Officers had attempted to stop a man a woman said she had just seen—someone who had allegedly robbed her the previous week. The suspect, identified as Thomas Warren Kerr of Chicago, fled and fired multiple shots from his vehicle, striking three police cars and fatally wounding Officer Egnor as he drove his patrol car.

The patrol car spun out of control on the Albany Avenue bridge while Egnor’s partner tried to assist. The pursuit ended when Kerr’s vehicle crashed and officers found that Kerr had died by an apparent self-inflicted wound; a large cache of weapons was recovered from his vehicle. The Albany Avenue bridge was later renamed the Peter Francis Egnor Memorial Bridge on October 14, 2006.

Did anyone who lived or worked near Albany Avenue in 1981 see that chase or have recollections about Officer Egnor?