On the night of November 19, 1980, 24-year-old Dutch immigrant Jorg Wenz was working as a doorman at the Ramrod, a gay leather bar on West Street in Greenwich Village, when a shooting attack tore through the neighborhood. A former transit police officer, Ronald K. Crumpley, opened fire with an Uzi submachine gun, first at men outside a delicatessen and then into the crowd waiting to enter the Ramrod and through the bar’s windows.

Vernon Kroening, 32, was killed instantly; Jorg Wenz was gravely wounded and died the next day at St. Vincent’s Hospital. In all, two people were killed and eight others were injured. Crumpley fled in his father’s car, was captured soon after while hiding under a truck, and later went on trial for murder and attempted murder.

Crumpley told authorities he intended to kill gay people and was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1981. The Ramrod never reopened. Does anyone have memories of the Ramrod or that day in Greenwich Village that could shed more light on the victims or the scene?