Russell Lynn Boyd was a 25-year-old Texas Department of Public Safety highway patrolman shot and killed on October 11, 1983, in Fort Bend County while performing a traffic stop. He had begun his DPS career on June 9, 1982, and was stationed at Hempstead. Reports say Trooper Boyd was shot multiple times and received a final shot to the head while wounded on the roadside.

The suspect, Eliseo Hernandez Moreno, was already responsible for six other killings earlier that day. Moreno was captured the same day, tried, convicted of capital murder, and sentenced to death. His estrangement from his wife was cited during the investigation as the trigger for his violent spree; Moreno was executed by lethal injection on March 4, 1987. Trooper Boyd’s memorial service was at Hillcrest Church of Christ in Weatherford and he was buried in Sturdivant Cemetery in Palo Pinto County.

Does anyone have personal memories of Trooper Boyd, or information about his final shift that could add detail to the timeline of events?