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On the morning of August 9, 1982, a 25-minute shooting rampage in an industrial district of Grand Prairie, Texas, left six people dead and three wounded. The attacker, identified as 49-year-old truck driver John Felton Parish, began at about 8:00 a.m. in the Western Transfer & Storage Inc. warehouse office. There he shot and killed Eddie Eugene Ulrich, 40; Martin Douglas Moran, 30; and Moody Charles Smith, 58.

Parish then went to the office of GM International Inc., killing executive secretary Wyvonne Kohler, 45, and wounding Ruth James, 19, and Burnett Hart, 42. At the Jewel T warehouse he killed Dave Bahl and Rick Svoboda and wounded Robert Sarabia, 30. A high-speed chase followed; Parish stole a truck, ran over police officer Alan Patton, 28, and after crashing the truck fled into the E.L. Murphy trucking company building. Police engaged him and shot him dead.

Parish was reported to have been upset over a pay dispute with Western Transfer & Storage Inc. and other grievances. No other suspects or arrests followed. If anyone knew Martin Douglas Moran or was working in that industrial area in August 1982, any recollections could help preserve the record of what happened that day?