Thomas E Wright

On a spring night in Decatur, Alabama, Officer Thomas E. Wright, a 36-year-old male with the Decatur Police Department, was working patrol with fellow officer Wade Moore when the pair noticed a traffic violation near the Bee Line Highway. They followed the vehicle as it rolled to a stop in front of a residence on Johnson Street, the place where the driver lived.

As Wright stepped toward the car to make contact, the routine stop turned sudden and violent. The driver—identified in later ...

Officer Thomas E. Wright