On March 22, 1989, Corporal Charles William Hill, a 40-year-old member of the Alexandria Police Department’s Special Operations Team, was killed during a hostage standoff at 316 Hopkins Court in Old Town Alexandria. The incident began when 34-year-old Jamie Wise, described as a drug dealer from New York City, took several people hostage while trying to collect a drug debt. After a five-hour standoff, a police sniper shot Wise in the heart. Before he died, Wise fired his sawed-off shotgun twice; one round fatally struck Hill and the other seriously wounded Officer Andrew Chelchowski.

Hill was a 13-year veteran who had previously served with the New York City Police Department; he left behind a wife and two sons. The suspect was killed at the scene, so no arrest was made in connection with Hill’s death. Officer Chelchowski later struggled with stress from the incident and died by suicide in 1993. Did anyone in the Old Town Alexandria area at the time have information about the standoff or the people involved?