Corporal Samuel Snyder, a 71-year-old White male and a thirty-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police Department, was shot after arriving to assist officers at a disturbance on August 10, 1983. Officers had been called to a restaurant at the intersection of Loch Raven Boulevard and East Joppa Road for a physical altercation between a man and a woman; several patrons had tried to intervene. Initial officers sat the male suspect in his car while they interviewed witnesses.

As Corporal Snyder walked toward the scene to provide backup, the suspect produced a handgun from beneath his seat and fired five shots. One round struck Snyder in the back; other officers returned fire and wounded the gunman in the abdomen before taking him into custody. Snyder was taken to a hospital, where he remained critically injured and died of his wounds on August 23, 1983.

Who knew Corporal Snyder or witnessed the shooting that night and can add details about the moments before the first shots were fired?