Michael C. Castro was 16 and of Hispanic descent when he was killed on January 8, 1993, in Palatine, Illinois. He was one of seven people murdered at the Brown’s Chicken & Pasta restaurant during a robbery that turned into a mass killing. The victims were discovered in the restaurant’s walk-in freezers; six had been shot and one stabbed.

The case went unsolved for many years. In 2002 an ex-girlfriend of one of the assailants provided key information that, together with DNA recovered from a piece of chicken at the scene, led to arrests. Juan Luna, a former restaurant employee, was later convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole; James Degorski was also convicted on all seven counts and given the same sentence. The families, including Michael Castro’s, endured long uncertainty before those convictions.

Did anyone who knew Michael or worked at the restaurant at the time want to share memories or details that might help others understand what happened that night?