On Thursday afternoon, March 7, 2013, Virginia State Police Master Trooper Junius Alvin Walker, 63, was shot and killed while on patrol on Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Walker, a Black/African American trooper who had served with the department since 1973, stopped to check what he believed was a disabled vehicle. As he sat in his marked patrol car, a man emerged from the other vehicle and opened fire. Walker was struck multiple times and was unable to return fire or call for backup; his patrol car then rolled down an embankment into the woods.

A second trooper arrived within minutes and encountered the suspect firing into Walker’s vehicle, exchanged gunfire, and saw the man flee into nearby woods. The suspect, identified in reports as 28-year-old Russell Brown, was located hiding at a business about a half-mile from the scene and arrested shortly after the shooting. Brown was charged with capital murder of a police officer, attempted capital murder of a police officer, and two felony firearm counts.

What additional details about the scene or those final minutes might help explain how the ambush unfolded for a veteran trooper who had been on the force since 1973?