article_snippet.sent: Jamie Pettingill, along with Victor Peirce and two other men, were charged with the murder of Victoria Police Constables Steven Tynan, 22, and Damian Eyre, 20.
article_snippet.sent: The officers were brutally killed when responding to a report of an abandoned car around 5am on October 12, 1988.
article_snippet.sent: Constable Steven John Tynan (left) was just 22-years-old
article_snippet.sent: when Constable Steven John Tynan and fellow officer Damian Jeffery Eyre, 20, (right) were lured to a street where he and fellow officer Damian Jeffery Eyre, 20, (right) were ambushed and shot in the head .
article_snippet.sent: Peirce were charged with the brutal slayings, along with four other men.
article_snippet.sent: Two of four other men, Jedd Houghton and Gary Abdallah, were shot and killed by Victoria Police before being brought to trial .