On the morning of January 25, 1993, Frank Alanson Darling, a 28-year-old CIA employee, was riding as a passenger beside his wife in a car waiting to turn into the agency’s main entrance on Route 123 in Langley, Virginia. As the line of vehicles waited at a traffic light, a man carrying an AK-47 emerged from a vehicle behind them and began firing into the stopped cars. Darling was struck and killed. Dr.

Lansing Heppe Bennett, a 66-year-old CIA physician and analyst, was also fatally shot in a nearby car; three other people were wounded. Darling’s wife was uninjured in the driver’s seat. The shooter fled the scene and an international manhunt followed.

Frank Darling was later awarded the CIA’s Intelligence Commendation medal posthumously.