On July 18, 1995, Armando Lugo, 24, was one of five people executed in the Pato’s Place massacre at a bar on West Prosperity Avenue in Tulare, California. The other victims named were Roberta Nunez, Jorge Munoz, Celia Martinez, and Margaret Moreno. The bar’s owner, Guadalupe Cantu, was severely wounded but survived by pretending to be dead.

Investigators later developed a cooperating witness after an unrelated arrest. In February 1997 Anthony Wolfe, arrested on counterfeiting charges, agreed to cooperate and his information led to the April 1999 arrests of Timothy Young and Donald Young. Wolfe and the Young brothers were charged with the murders and the attempted murder of Cantu. A grand jury returned an indictment in May 2002 on five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder with special allegations. The trial began in September 2005, and on December 20, 2005, the Young brothers were found guilty and received death penalty sentences tied to the special allegations.

The massacre deeply affected the Tulare community; Roberta Nunez was remembered for singing at local events and her death profoundly affected her twin sister Alberta Nunez Luna. Does anyone have memories of Pato’s Place or information about the victims that could add context to this case?