On the morning of Friday, March 27, 1981, Montgomery County Police Officer Philip Carl Metz, a 33-year-old male, was just starting his shift when he was dispatched to a W. Bell and Co. catalog store in White Oak. An alarm had been activated earlier, but the building was found secure. This time, Officer Metz was to meet the assistant store manager, Douglas Cummins, and a security employee, David Myers, to conduct an interior check of the premises. The three men entered the store together shortly
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