Douglas J. Berry was 63 when he was killed on September 8, 1989, inside the coin and jewelry store he owned in Watertown, New York. Accounts describe a nighttime break-in that turned violent after someone in the back room stirred; Gary Charles Evans shot Berry during the confrontation while Evans and his partner at the time, Damien Cuomo, took property reported in one account as about $15,000.

Evans and Cuomo had been arrested in March 1989 on an unrelated incident in which masks and burglary tools were reportedly found, but they were released for lack of sufficient evidence months before Berry’s killing. Years later Evans surrendered to police in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, on May 27, 1998, confessed to multiple murders and linked himself to other crimes; he was arraigned in 1998 but died by suicide on August 14, 1998, after escaping custody and jumping from the Menands Bridge into the Hudson River, so the Watertown case never reached a trial.

Are there witnesses, family members, or former customers who remember Douglas Berry or have information about the events of that night?