In the early morning hours of April 23, 1974, 25-year-old David A. Urban was shot and killed inside the Lynn Tap bar in Lynn, Massachusetts. Urban, a native of Buffalo, New York, and a reputed Hell’s Angels member, was seated with three associates when a lone gunman appeared at the open doorway and fired a series of shots. A single bullet under Urban’s left armpit pierced his heart and caused his rapid death. Another visitor, 28-year-old Mark W. Veherbon of Menlo Park, California, was wounded in the stomach and leg but survived.

A firearm and a jacket were later found in a parking lot behind the bar, but it is not publicly known whether those items were definitively linked to the shooter. One uninjured witness gave only a vague description of a man with long, dark hair and a mustache. Investigators have long treated the killing as connected to a local feud: a stabbing at the Arena Cafe on April 7, 1974, in which Thomas Abernathy Jr. was allegedly stabbed by two Hell’s Angels members, and subsequent violent incidents including a March 24, 1975, package-bombing that severely injured Abernathy Jr. No arrests have ever been made in Urban’s murder, and the case remains unsolved.

Does anyone have memories of the Lynn Tap that night or information about the people who were staying with the Lynn chapter then?