Maritanya Banks was one of thirteen people killed in a mass shooting in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1982. She was one of five of the shooter’s own children, all aged six and under, who died that day during an attack that began inside the family home on Schoolhouse Lane.

The perpetrator, her father George Emil Banks, 40, shot victims inside the house with a Colt AR-15 after drinking alcohol and taking prescription drugs. He then shot additional people outside and at the Heather Highlands mobile home park before a four-hour standoff with police ended in his surrender and arrest. He was tried, convicted on multiple counts of murder, and sentenced to death on June 22, 1983.

Maritanya’s death is part of what remains the deadliest mass shooting in Pennsylvania’s history. If anyone knew Maritanya or the family and can share details about her life or the morning of September 25, that information could help preserve her memory.