On the evening of August 24, 1997, South Bend Corporal Paul Richard Deguch, 30, was shot while on patrol near Talbot Avenue. Deguch had served seven years with the South Bend Police Department and was patrolling in a neighborhood noted for high drug activity when he stopped a young person on a bicycle. During a patdown the subject produced a hidden .38-caliber handgun and opened fire. Deguch suffered multiple critical wounds, including a fatal head wound, and died about an hour after the shooting at a local hospital.

Officers arrested 16-year-old Gregory Dickens Jr. at a nearby residence within three hours. Prosecutors charged him as an adult; a jury found him guilty of murder in July 1999. The court sentenced Dickens to life in prison without the possibility of parole after the death penalty was ruled out because of his age at the time of the offense. In 2012 Dickens sought a new trial challenging the forensic bullet-lead analysis used in the case, but the conviction remained in place.

Did anyone in the community remember events around Talbot Avenue on August 24, 1997, or have information about the moments leading up to the stop?