On December 14, 1993, 17-year-old Benjamin Josiah Ben Grant was working at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora, Colorado, when a former employee entered after closing and opened fire. Grant, described as a smart, good, goofy and happy high school wrestler, was vacuuming when he was fatally shot near his left eye. Three coworkers — Sylvia Crowell, 19, Colleen O’Connor, 17, and Margaret Kohlberg, 50 — were also killed; a fifth employee survived a serious gunshot wound. The assailant stole money and game tokens before fleeing.

Police arrested 19-year-old Nathan Dunlap about twelve hours later at his mother’s apartment and recovered a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol tied to the attack. Dunlap was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery and burglary.