On the morning of September 25, 1982, a mass shooting in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killed thirteen people, including one-year-old Foraroude Banks. The attack began at a house on Schoolhouse Lane, where several family members were shot; Foraroude was among those killed in that initial location. The shooter, identified as George Emil Banks, then went on to a second location in nearby Jenkins Township before a standoff with police ended in his surrender.

During the ensuing trial, Banks’s lawyers pleaded legal insanity. A jury convicted him of twelve counts of first-degree murder and one count of third-degree murder, and he was sentenced to death in June 1983. Foraroude Banks is recorded among the victims of that night’s family-targeted violence.