James F. Kidd, a 46-year-old attorney from Wheaton, Illinois, was killed on August 6, 1993, in a mass shooting at Luigi’s Italian Restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The attacker, 22-year-old Kenneth Junior French, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, entered the restaurant armed with two shotguns and a rifle and began ranting about President Bill Clinton’s policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military before opening fire on patrons.

The shooting left four people dead — Pete Nick Parrous, Ethel C. Parrous, Wesley Scot Cover, and James F. Kidd — and several others wounded, including the gunman, who was shot and wounded by police. French was arrested and charged with four counts of capital murder and eight counts of assault; he was convicted on all charges and received four consecutive life terms for the murders plus an additional 35 years for the assaults.

Kidd’s death is one of several in an attack that has been described as a hate crime motivated by the shooter’s opposition to the military policy. If anyone knew James F. Kidd or was at Luigi’s that night and has information to share, please come forward.