On the evening of May 7, 1981, Lori J Cunningham, a 22-year-old paralegal, was among the patrons at the Oregon Museum Tavern in Salem during a busy ladies’ night. At about 10:30 p.m. a man later identified as 25-year-old Lawrence William Moore entered and began shooting with a 9mm Browning handgun. Moore opened fire at the bar and then at fleeing patrons; Cunningham was fatally wounded and died at the scene.

Three people died inside the tavern that night; two more victims later died of their wounds (one later that night, one years later), bringing the total fatalities to five and leaving 18 others wounded. Witnesses say a patron struck Moore with a pool cue while he was reloading and several people pinned him until police arrived. Moore was arrested at the scene, later tried beginning October 6, 1981, pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, admitted the shootings but claimed he was trying to apprehend members of a syndicate, was convicted of four counts of aggravated murder and given four life sentences. Cunningham’s name appears on the memorial wall at Mountain View Cemetery in Oregon City.

If anyone knew Lori Cunningham or was at the tavern that night, what details might help deepen the record of her life and that night?