Michael Connors

In the early hours of November 13, 1979, Richmond Police Patrolman Michael P. Connors, a 23-year-old male, was on duty when he pulled over a vehicle for traveling the wrong way on a one-way street near the intersection of Madison and Grace Streets. Unbeknownst to the young officer, who had only been with the department for a year, the four men inside the car were recent parolees who had just committed an armed robbery at a nearby convenience store. Mistakenly believing that Patrolman Connors had ...