Lawrence J. Kane, 46, was killed on February 16, 1988, in Sunnyvale, California, during a mass shooting at the headquarters of ESL Incorporated. The shooter, Richard Wade Farley, a former ESL employee who had been stalking co-worker Laura Black for years, arrived at the building armed with multiple firearms and a large quantity of ammunition. Kane was encountered in the parking lot as he was leaving the building and was fatally shot, the first of seven people killed that day; four others were wounded.

Farley had been fired by ESL for his persistent harassment of Laura Black, whose repeated attempts to distance herself from him were documented in reports about the case. The attack began with Kane’s killing in the parking lot and then escalated inside the ESL facility, when Farley sought Black and shot multiple people.

The shooting drew intense attention to workplace safety and stalking, and remains a stark example of how persistent harassment can lead to deadly violence. If anyone knew Lawrence Kane, worked at ESL in 1988, or has information about his last movements that morning, please share what is known.