On the night of June 6, 2008, 40-year-old Fredericksburg Police Officer Todd Allen Bahr was killed while responding to a domestic disturbance. Officers were sent earlier to an apartment in the 2300 block of Cowan Boulevard about threatening phone calls a man had made to his former girlfriend. They returned about 10:50 p.m. after a report the suspect was outside the woman’s apartment, armed with a handgun. The suspect fled on foot into the complex and officers searched the 2500 block of Manor Court. During that search, Officer Bahr was fatally shot in the head.

Moments after shots were heard, other officers encountered the suspect, identified as Gregory Berryman, in a nearby parking area. An exchange of gunfire followed; Berryman sustained multiple gunshot wounds from officers’ return fire and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Officer Bahr, who had served two years with the Fredericksburg Police Department after starting as a volunteer auxiliary officer, was found mortally wounded shortly after the confrontation.

Does anyone have memories of Bahr’s service or information about the incident that could add context to what happened that night?