On December 8, 1986, 21-year-old Sean Orlando Mabrey was one of six people killed in a mass shooting at a home in East Oakland. The attack occurred in the early hours when 28-year-old David Esco Moochie Welch, accompanied by his girlfriend Rita Lewis, entered the house and opened fire while several family members slept.

Victims included Dellane Mabrey, her 3-year-old daughter Valencia Morgan, brothers Darnell Mabrey and Sean Orlando Mabrey, and family friend Kathy Walker with her 4-year-old son Dwayne Miller. Dellane’s boyfriend Leslie Morgan and her 3-month-old son Dexter were wounded; Barbara Mabrey and her daughter Stacey escaped. Reported tensions—including Welch’s breakup with 16-year-old Dellane, disputes over pit bulls, and a fistfight the night before between Welch and Orlando Mabrey—were described by investigators as motives for the rampage.

Welch and Lewis were arrested about nine hours after the shootings at a house roughly two miles from the crime scene. Does anyone have memories of the victims or information about the family’s life in East Oakland leading up to that December morning?