As a year ends that will surely be remembered in part for violent acts against police officers, a group gathers tonight at a Capitol Hill memorial to a SPD officer killed in the line of duty 25 years ago.

Officer Nick Davis was shot to death with his own service revolver on this day in 1984 as he struggled with a man who had skipped out on a $4.55 tab for a cheese blintz at the International House of Pancakes. Despite mental illness, the man was sentenced to 27 years in prison. In 2003, the PI reports, he was deemed dangerously mentally ill and ordered to be held at a state mental hospital.

The Friday night memorial organizers Washington State Concerns of Police Survivors said people will gather starting at 5 PM in the parking lot in front of The Color Store at Union and Madison where the Davis memorial is located. That’s the spot where Davis died in 1984.

Don’t know what the plans are for the memorial when the demolition begins on that lot in preparation for a new mixed-use development. The Color Store has already announced it is leaving the Hill.