On April 23, 1987, 18-year-old Kuwaiti student Emad Mohamiad Al-Tawakuly was shot and killed outside the Publix at Palm Bay Center in Palm Bay, Florida. He and his friend Nabil Abdul Al-Hameli, 25, were leaving the store when William Bryan Cruse Jr., armed with a semiautomatic assault rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, opened fire. A companion, Faisel Al-Mutairi, was wounded in the attack.

Cruse’s rampage began earlier when he shot a 14-year-old boy playing basketball in a driveway and continued through the shopping center; other people were shot, Ruth Green was killed in her car, and two police officers, Ronald Grogan and Gerald Johnson, were also killed at a second shopping center. Cruse was taken into custody after a standoff during which he held three hostages who were released unharmed.

If anyone knew Emad, his friends or the other victims, or has information about that day, please share what is known.