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Jonathan Olds, a 20-year-old from Schenectady, New York, was killed on July 29, 2017. He was among roughly 30 people gathered outside the El Dorado bar on Crane Street when a man opened fire into the crowd with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol. Olds was struck and later pronounced dead at Ellis Hospital; two other people were injured, one by gunfire and another by a stab wound.

The shooter, identified as 26-year-old Niam Dorvil, admitted to Schenectady police and the FBI that he had no specific target and fired because he felt dissatisfied with his life and was mad at the world in general. Dorvil was arrested and later convicted of second-degree murder, weapons offenses, and reckless endangerment; in August 2018 a judge sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

If anyone who knew Jonathan or was at the El Dorado that night has additional information or memories to share, please contribute.