On the evening of July 24, 1988, Sergeant John David Conner III, a 38-year-old male officer with the Manassas Police Department, was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call. A U.S. Army veteran, Conner had served with the department for eight years and was a husband and father of four. The incident that led to his death began with a report of a man on his front porch armed with an AR-15 rifle, firing shots into the air.
Upon the arrival of police units, the suspect, identif
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