In the late hours of a warm Virginia summer evening, the bustling Green Run Shopping Center in Virginia Beach became the tragic backdrop for the end of a dedicated officer's watch. On Thursday, August 7, 2008, Detective Michael Smith Phillips, a 37-year-old male, was working undercover in a narcotics 'buy-bust' operation in the shopping center's parking lot on Holland Road. He was a seasoned officer with six years in the Virginia Beach Police Department and a United States Air Force veteran who
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