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Anna Velasco, 42, was one of four people killed in a mass shooting at the California Employment Development Department office in Oxnard, California, on December 2, 1993. The attacker, identified as 33-year-old Alan Douglas Winterbourne, entered the office armed with a pistol and a shotgun. Velasco was shot in the hip and then fatally shot in the chest as she tried to take cover under her desk.

The rampage also killed Richard Bateman, Phillip Villegas, and Detective James Edward O'Brien. Winterbourne continued to another unemployment office and was killed in a shootout with police; no other arrests were made. Documents left by Winterbourne expressed frustration over a prolonged, unsuccessful job search and helped investigators piece together his stated motives.

Does anyone have memories of Anna Velasco or the Oxnard offices from that time, or information that could add to the record?