Hugh Campbell Scrutton, a 38-year-old Caucasian man, was killed on December 11, 1985, in Sacramento, California. He owned a computer rental store and was in the parking lot of his business when he bent down to pick up an object that looked like trash; the object exploded and instantly killed him.

Officials later attributed the bombing to Theodore Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, whose long campaign targeted people connected to technology and industrial society. Scrutton’s death was one of the earliest fatal attacks in that series, which ultimately included three deaths and more than twenty injuries. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 and later admitted responsibility for the bombings in a 1998 plea agreement that resulted in multiple life terms without parole.

Does anyone have memories of Scrutton, his business, or that Sacramento neighborhood in 1985 that could add context to what happened?