Alexander Cochran

On the evening of January 15, 1987, a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in Lorton, Virginia, was shattered by gunfire that would leave two men dead. The life of 27-year-old Virginia State Trooper Alexander McKie 'Al' Cochran, III, was cut tragically short when he responded to a violent domestic dispute unfolding near his own home.

Earlier that evening, off-duty Trooper Cochran had just returned from the grocery store and was unloading groceries inside his townhouse on Hagel Circle. An argu ...