State lawmakers are honoring a slain Winston-Salem police officer with a highway designation.
Stephen Amos was 24 and had worked for the department for three years when a man with a high-powered rifle shot him while he responded to a report of gunfire at an apartment complex. He died the next day.
That was in 1995. Now the state is honoring Amos with the naming of a bridge not far from where he grew up in Walkertown. The “Stephen Levy Amos II Bridge” is on U.S. 158 and will span a section of the Northern Beltway.
It's one of only five bridges that lawmakers have authorized the state Department of Transportation to so commemorate in its latest version of the amended budget.
Amos' killer, George Page, was sentenced to death for the crime but died on death row before his execution could be carried out.