On the morning of December 30, 1994, 25-year-old Shannon Lowney was working as the receptionist at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts. A committed advocate for women’s reproductive rights who had recently returned from counseling abused children, she greeted a young man who asked if the clinic was Planned Parenthood. When she confirmed that it was, he produced a rifle and fatally shot her.

The gunman continued to attack people inside the clinic, wounding several, then drove to a second Brookline clinic, Preterm Health Services, where he murdered another receptionist, Lee Ann Nichols, and injured more people. The shooter was later identified as John C. Salvi III; he was arrested the next day in Norfolk, Virginia after opening fire at another clinic. Salvi was tried in Massachusetts, the jury rejected an insanity defense, and he was convicted in March 1996 of two counts of first-degree murder and of assaults on five others.

If anyone knew Shannon, where she worked, or was in the area that day, please share what might help fill gaps in the timeline or identify witnesses.