Sgt. Gary Wolfley
Dennis Brewer
Facts of the Crime:
Sgt. Gary Wolfley, 31, was slain with his own gun on March 3, 1986 by a man he had stopped for questioning behind a gas station. Minutes later, Wolfley's wife -- then a Fontana police officer who was off-duty and riding with her husband -- used the sergeant's car radio to report shots fired and someone running away.
Dennis Brewer, of San Bernardino, was arrested that same night after police chased him to a nearby house where he barricaded himself inside and shot the homeowner in the leg before negotiators talked him into surrendering.
Brewer was sentenced to death in San Bernardino County on May 4, 1988.
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