On Valentine’s Day 1977, 55-year-old Frederick Holmes was killed in a mass shooting at Neptune Worldwide Moving Company in New Rochelle, New York. Holmes, a Black employee, was among the first people shot at point-blank range while talking in a hallway when a heavily armed former coworker returned to the workplace intent on violence.

The gunman, 33-year-old Frederick Cowan, had been suspended by his supervisor and carried out a prolonged attack that left several employees dead or wounded and drew a large police response. Cowan fired from a second-floor window during a hours-long siege, exchanged odd demands and remarks with officers, and ultimately died by a self-inflicted gunshot late that afternoon. A search of his home later turned up Nazi memorabilia, firearms and ammunition.

Holmes went to work that morning and did not return. Does anyone have memories of Neptune Worldwide Moving Company, or of Frederick Holmes and the coworkers who were there that day?