On a Tuesday afternoon, September 14, 1982, Donald G. Luning, a 31-year-old officer with the Metropolitan Police Department, was working a tactical detail in plainclothes. An 11-year veteran of the force, he and his partner were patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., when they spotted a stolen vehicle occupied by a man and a woman on Jay Street, NE. When the officers moved to stop the car, the male driver and a female passenger fled on foot.
Luning pursued the male suspect into an ap
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