Steven Charles Dody, 43, was among the 23 people killed when George Jo Hennard drove a pickup through the front window of a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire on October 16, 1991. Dody was a decorated Vietnam veteran and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. The attack wounded 27 others before the gunman died by suicide at the scene.

The massacre prompted extensive public debate and legislative responses in Texas and nationally. The state legislature passed a shall-issue concealed carry law in 1995. The Luby’s location later closed and reopened under a different restaurant name. The events remain one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.

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