A confrontation at the Sandy Hook Hotel in Newtown, Connecticut, ended in deadly gunfire on July 31, 1975. Twenty-three-year-old Frank D’Amato, a member of the Bridgeport chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, was shot and killed during a shootout there. Another Hells Angels member, 34-year-old Salvatore Saffioti, was also killed; a third member, Donald Big Red Meredith, was critically injured.

Reports tie the clash to a dispute between hotel proprietor Donald E. Krosky and the Village Café owner Charles Framularo. Framularo allegedly enlisted Hells Angels members to intimidate Krosky; D’Amato, Saffioti and Meredith reportedly confronted Krosky armed with knives, and Krosky then used a .44 Magnum carbine, firing on the three men. Krosky surrendered to Newtown police and was charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of D’Amato and Saffioti.

Were there witnesses in Sandy Hook that day who can add detail about what led up to the confrontation?