On May 4, 1993, at about 10:21 p.m., an armed robbery at the Long John Silver’s at 975 Pine Ridge Road in North Naples left 26-year-old Timothy Dean Gorisch mortally wounded. Deputies responded to reports of a robbery and shooting; employees said two masked men entered through the back door, pointed a gun at three staff members and ordered them to the floor. Gorisch was found on the floor with an apparent gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Naples Community Hospital, where he died the next afternoon.

Witnesses reported the robbers fled through the back and encountered an off-duty employee in her car. She was struck on the left side of her face with what she described as a metal pipe while her 2-year-old son remained in the vehicle. She said the man who hit her was not wearing a mask and later helped detectives produce a composite.

The attackers were described as two Black males: a smaller youth about 15 to 17 years old, 5 feet 8 inches and 150 pounds in a blue shirt and jeans, and a larger man about 20 to 22 years old, 6 feet 1 inch and 250 pounds in a white shirt and jeans. The Collier County Sheriff’s Office investigated tips and leads and the case remains under investigation.

Did anyone who lived or worked near Pine Ridge Road in 1993 ever see two men running behind the Beacon Bowl that night or remember someone matching those descriptions?