On April 4, 1978, Officer James William "Billy" Nunalee Sr., aged 24, was tragically ambushed and killed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Officer Nunalee, a male of Caucasian ethnicity, was a dedicated member of the Wilmington Police Department. He was fatally shot 21 times with a semi-automatic rifle by two masked men as he exited a convenience store. The assailants then stole his service revolver and fled the scene.
The investigation into Officer Nunalee's murder initially focused on a hu
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