On the night of May 16 into the early morning of May 17, 1986, James Roepke, 52, was in the Grand View Lounge in northeast Colorado Springs when a gunman entered and opened fire. Firefighters arriving about 2:50 a.m. extinguished flames and found three people shot in the head inside the smoking bar: Roepke, bartender Debbie Green, 29, and patron Joanne McNamara, 46. Investigators determined the attacker had set the bar on fire and then crossed into the adjoining Kwik-Way convenience store, where he shot two clerks, sisters Sandra Ann Howard, 22, and Elaine Sindlesecker, 19, before fleeing.

A clear surveillance photograph from the Kwik-Way led detectives to identify 29-year-old plumber Gilbert Eugenio Archibeque and to obtain an arrest warrant charging him with five counts of first-degree murder; ballistics tied a .357-caliber revolver to the killings. The next day, after a neighbor recognized the surveillance image, Archibeque was tracked to his apartment, answered police, said OK when told to surrender, and then shot himself in the head with a .357 revolver. With the suspect deceased, no trial took place and investigators did not seek other assailants.

Does anyone have memories or information about the Grand View Lounge or the victims from that night?