Gregg William Winters was a 32-year-old Muncie Police Department officer who was shot while on duty after responding to a traffic crash on December 28, 1990. After arresting a 20-year-old man for public intoxication, officers placed the suspect, handcuffed, in the rear of Winters’ squad car for transport to the county jail. A short distance from the jail the prisoner retrieved a concealed .25-caliber semi-automatic handgun and shot Officer Winters five times in the back of the head and neck. The patrol car was later found in a ditch.

Winters survived in critical condition for eleven days at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis but died of his injuries on January 8, 1991; one bullet had severed his spinal cord, leaving him unable to breathe independently. He was survived by his wife, Molly, and their sons Kyle, age three, and Brock, age ten months.

The suspect, Michael Lambert, was taken into custody at the scene and later convicted of murder. In the years after her husband’s death Molly Winters became an advocate for survivors of officers killed in the line of duty and served as national president for Concerns of Police Survivors.