On the evening of February 24, 1993, Virginia State Police Trooper II José M. Cavazos, a 50-year-old Caucasian male, was conducting a routine traffic stop on an exit ramp from southbound I-95 in Dale City, Virginia. A veteran of the U.S. Army who had served in the 1991 Gulf War and had been with the Virginia State Police for 12 years, Trooper Cavazos was unaware that this encounter would be his last. As he approached the vehicle he had pulled over, the passenger suddenly opened fire with a 9mm
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