Biography
Wayne Reed was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after the July 1978 confrontation in which Officer Burdsall died, according to the contemporary account.
The Cincinnati report describes Wayne Reed and Russell Bell being pursued after a July 1978 King Quick parking-lot confrontation in which Officer Burdsall died, followed by murder convictions and death sentences. The newspaper alleges racist prosecution and frames the confrontation as self-defense. It establishes actual prosecution and imprisonment but gives no exact arrest or conviction date or complete custody duration. Revolutionary Worker, vol. 1 no. 3, May 18, 1979, original PDF page 9. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/periodicals/revolutionary-worker/rw-1-3.pdf#page=9
