Robert Stoeckmann, 26, was shot on November 9, 1973, while working as a field clerk for Pacific Gas and Electric in San Francisco. Around 8 p.m. at a company stockyard on Army Street a well-dressed man asked him for directions, then pushed him behind a fence and shot him in the neck with a .32 caliber revolver. Stoeckmann survived the initial wound, feigned death, and when the attacker tried to shoot again he grabbed the cylinder and during the struggle disarmed the man and shot him in self-defense.

The assailant was identified as Leroy Doctor, who was later found hiding under a railroad trestle with gunshot wounds to his arm, shoulder, and stomach and was arrested and convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. This attack is described as part of the series of racially motivated Zebra murders in San Francisco in 1973–1974, carried out by a group referred to as the Death Angels; those killings are reported to have included at least 15 deaths and several injuries.

Does anyone have further information about Stoeckmann’s recovery or remembers the Army Street stockyard and that night?