Jun Gao, a 49-year-old Asian man, was shot and killed on November 7, 1997, inside a north Stockton grocery store. The killing was part of a violent crime spree in San Joaquin County that began in September 1997 and culminated in several murders. Besun Yu, 56, was also fatally shot in the same incident.

The suspect in the spree was a Stockton tow truck driver named Louis Peoples. Reports state the firearm used in the store killings had been stolen from the vehicle of an off-duty Alameda County sheriff’s deputy. Peoples was arrested and later convicted on multiple counts of first-degree murder for these killings.

What details do readers in Stockton recall about that grocery store shooting or the days leading up to it?