On the night of July 3, 2001, Rifle, Colorado, suffered a sudden and deadly attack. Melquiades Medrano-Velasquez, 23, a Hispanic man, was among four people killed and several others wounded when a local resident opened fire at multiple locations, beginning outside a grocery store and later moving into a nearby mobile home park where many of the town’s Hispanic families lived. Melquiades and his brother Juan Carlos Medrano-Velasquez were both killed in the mobile home park.

The shooter, identified as 42-year-old Steven Michael Stagner, had a documented history of psychiatric problems and reportedly acted with racial animus and delusional beliefs during the rampage. He was arrested after the shootings and later tried on multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder. The court found him not guilty by reason of insanity and he was committed to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo rather than sent to prison.

Did anyone in Rifle at the time know the Medrano-Velasquez family or have information about the events that night?