On the night of March 23, 1997, 27-year-old Ronald Santiago was working at a McDonald’s in Hermitage, Tennessee, when a gunman forced several employees back inside after their shifts and herded them into a storeroom. The attacker, later identified as Paul Dennis Reid Jr., robbed the restaurant and then opened fire. Ronald Santiago, Andrea Brown, 17, and Robert A. Sewell, 23, were fatally shot. A fourth employee survived after Reid’s gun malfunctioned; that person was stabbed multiple times, pretended to be dead, and later identified the assailant.

These murders were part of a string of violent robberies at fast-food restaurants in the Nashville area that year. Investigators connected the McDonald’s slayings to Paul Dennis Reid Jr. after he attempted to kidnap a Shoney’s manager in June 1997, and the surviving McDonald’s victim positively identified him. Reid was arrested and charged in the case.

If anyone knew Ronald Santiago, his co-workers, or saw anything the night of March 23, 1997, please come forward with information.