In the waning hours of New Year's Eve, 1982, a young Memphis police officer's life was tragically cut short, just thirteen days after he had proudly graduated from the police academy. John Wesley Sykes Jr., a 22-year-old male, was on patrol with his field training officer when they observed a car being driven erratically. Unbeknownst to the officers, the two occupants of the vehicle had just committed an armed robbery.
A pursuit began, and though the officers briefly lost sight of the sus
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