On June 3, 1999, Albertsons at 3864 West Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas was the scene of a calculated mass shooting just after 5:15 a.m. Courtesy clerk Thomas Darnell, 40, was the first person shot; he was bringing shopping carts into the store and was struck in the back, killed instantly. Darnell had worked at Albertsons for two years and is described as sweet and caring.

The gunman, Zane Floyd, used a modified 12-gauge shotgun and moved through the store firing at random. Three other employees were killed and a fifth, Zachary T. Emenegger, 23, was critically wounded but survived by playing dead. Before the supermarket attack, Floyd assaulted a woman who had come to his residence from an escort service and then walked to the store. Floyd surrendered after an eight-minute standoff with police.

Floyd was tried in July 2000; his confession and the store surveillance video were admitted, Emenegger testified, and a jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon plus related charges and imposed death sentences. Does anyone have remembrances of Thomas Darnell or details about his life and work at that Albertsons?