Arthur John Baker III, a 33-year-old maintenance man and janitor at Moses Montefiore Public School, was shot and killed on September 22, 1988, in Chicago, Illinois. According to reports, he was outside the school helping a city sanitation worker pick up the building’s garbage when a gunman opened fire. Baker made it back inside, shut the door and alerted the principal before collapsing from his injuries.

The gunman, identified as Clem Clemmie Henderson, 40, went on a shooting rampage that killed four people in total, including Baker, Irma Ruiz, John Van Dyke and Robert Quinn. Officer Gregory Jaglowski wounded Henderson and then shot and killed him at the scene. Baker was remembered as a quiet, hard-working family man; he was married to Eileen Lee Mahoney and had two sons, Arthur IV and Mark Baker. He was buried at Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum in Evergreen Park, Cook County, Illinois.

Does anyone have memories of Baker, the school, or the neighborhood from that time that could add to the record?