On a December afternoon in 1984, Virginia State Police Sergeant James Leroy Biggs, a 47-year-old male, was patrolling Interstate 64 in Alleghany County. Around 2:30 p.m., just two miles from the West Virginia border, he initiated a traffic stop of a speeding vehicle at a rest stop. As the 18-year veteran of the force and a United States Navy and National Guard veteran approached the driver's side of the car, he was met with gunfire. Two shots were fired from a. 44-caliber magnum pistol, striking
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