In the winter of 2005, a routine traffic stop on a cold January night in Columbia, Missouri, ended in a tragedy that would deeply wound the community and its police force. On the evening of January 10th, Officer Molly Thomas-Bowden, a 26-year-old officer with the Columbia Police Department, pulled over a vehicle at the intersection of Nifong and Forum Boulevards. During the stop, the driver, 23-year-old Richard Evans, a student at Columbia College, opened fire on Officer Thomas-Bowden, striking
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