Officer Brian Gibson was D.C.-born and raised, proud to wear the uniform of the Metropolitan Police Department, serving and protecting the people of his hometown.
But in February 1997, he was ambushed at random by a man described in court as angry at being thrown out of the Ibex nightclub by an off-duty officer.
The shocking details of his murder are seared into the memories of not just his friends, family and colleagues, but almost everyone living in a city that felt much smaller and closer then…