Shortly after midnight on July 18, 2015, gunfire erupted inside Stars Cabaret, a gentlemen’s club in Salem, Oregon. The shooting was tied to a gang-related altercation and was not random. Darryl Patrick Jones, 47, was among four people struck; he later died of his injuries. The intended target was Jose Quintanilla, and three other men — David Raschko, Lamont Lawrence, and Jason Alba — were wounded but survived.

Police moved quickly and arrested 25-year-old Tomas Mendoza-Moreno in Portland on July 22, 2015. An eyewitness identified him in a lineup as the person who fired a handgun multiple times inside the club. At the time of the shooting Mendoza-Moreno was on parole for first-degree robbery.

In February 2016 Mendoza-Moreno pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder, first-degree assault, and felon in possession of a firearm and received a life sentence with no parole eligibility for at least 40 years. Jones’s family described his death as a senseless loss; his mother’s letter was read at sentencing.