A late-night dispute in Portland, Maine, on June 24, 1997, ended with three young men shot dead in the street outside an apartment building. Kevin Wayne Pinette, 22, a student at Southern Maine Technical College and an employee at Geary’s Brewing Co., was killed alongside friends Dana Matthews, 24, and Nicholas Patenaude, 23. The group had argued earlier that evening with local bar owner Sabato Raia and later went to Raia’s home, where the confrontation escalated.

All three victims were found in the street in front of Raia’s apartment building with gunshot wounds to the head. Raia was arrested and tried on murder charges, claiming he acted in self-defense; a jury acquitted him. A later civil case found that although Raia subjectively believed his life was in danger, that belief was not reasonable.

Does anyone have additional information about the events that led up to the confrontation that night?