Virgil Tibbs shoots and kills a robbery suspect during a foot pursuit, unaware that it was a girl.
Detective Virgil Tibbs responds to an armed robbery in which he is confronted with shooting a suspect. Afterwards, Virgil has problems coming to grips with results of his actions because the person he shot happened to be a teenage girl and to make things worse, the gun Virgil believed that was aimed at him cannot be found.—anonymous