A late-night confrontation at Woody’s Cantina in Salem, Oregon, on July 10, 2021, ended with two men dead. Jose Pablo Arrevalo, 27, and 29-year-old Erlin Adonay Rivas-Lopez were shot during a chaotic incident that unfolded inside the bar. Witnesses reported the sequence began earlier when Nivardo Ramirez-Monge, then 23, was hit on the head with a bottle; later in the evening Ramirez-Monge and Arrevalo clashed in a bathroom and Ramirez-Monge fired multiple shots. Arrevalo was struck four times; Rivas-Lopez, who was in a stall and not part of the dispute, was struck by a single bullet. Both died from their wounds, and people were fleeing the scene when police arrived.

Investigators tracked Ramirez-Monge to Tonopah, Nevada, and arrested him about ten days after the shooting; he was returned to Oregon to face charges. Court filings show Ramirez-Monge was initially indicted on two counts of first-degree murder; he subsequently pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with three years of post-prison supervision. Did anyone who was at Woody’s Cantina that night notice anything before the violence began?