Josephine Linda Rocha was 17 and from Fresno, California, when she was fatally shot on September 5, 1980, in the attack at Fran’s Market. She worked part time at the small grocery store to save for a car and was looking forward to her senior year in high school. Josephine was killed alongside Bryon Schletewitz and Douglas White in a violent scheme planned by inmate Clarence Ray Allen as revenge against Schletewitz for testifying against him in an earlier trial. Allen recruited Billy Ray Hamilton, who was paroled shortly before the killings, and Hamilton and accomplice Connie Barbo carried out the attack. The investigation led to arrests and convictions of the perpetrators, and the case devastated the victims’ families.

Did anyone in Fresno at the time have memories of Josephine or the market that could shed more light on her life or that night?