On the evening of April 18, 1993, 33-year-old Steven Fairfax was shot and killed outside Jim & I’s Star Bar in Colorado Springs. The attack was carried out by a man identified as Eugene Baylis, who witnesses said wore a flak jacket and was armed with an AK-47 and four grenades. The rampage also killed the bar’s manager, 40-year-old Paul P.K. Klein, and wounded five other people.

Officer James Rau shot and wounded Baylis in the head as Baylis attempted to reload; Baylis was arrested and later tried in Pueblo County in 1995. During the 28-day trial more than 100 witnesses testified and Baylis was acquitted of all 43 state charges. Baylis subsequently pleaded guilty in 1995 to federal illegal possession of three machine guns and received a three-year sentence with credit for time served.