Ford Kazuhiko Kanehira, a 41-year-old Native Hawaiian and a 19-year Xerox employee, was one of seven men killed during the November 2, 1999 massacre inside Xerox’s Nimitz Highway building in Honolulu. Remembered by family and co-workers as warm, loyal, and playful, he left behind his wife, Lorna, and young son, Brice. Hundreds attended his memorial at Central Union Church.

Prosecutors and trial accounts say co-worker Byran Koji Uyesugi arrived appearing calm, began shooting inside the building, and killed two men in a computer room before moving to a second-floor conference room where Kanehira and four others were slain. Police identified Uyesugi the same day; he fled in a company van, was located near the Hawaiʻi Nature Center in Makiki, engaged in a standoff, and surrendered that afternoon. The case moved to indictment and trial, and the jury ultimately convicted Uyesugi of first-degree murder in the deaths of the seven employees and attempted second-degree murder for the surviving employee.

Anyone who knew Ford, his family, or his work life at Xerox and can share memories or information is asked to come forward.