Gene Leroy Goldsberry, 61, was killed while serving as a Special Deputy Marshal at the Frank Carlson Federal Building in Topeka, Kansas, on August 5, 1993. A veteran of the US Army and a 25-year Kansas Highway Patrol retiree, Goldsberry was posted on the fourth floor when an assailant—who had detonated a car bomb outside the courthouse—entered, rode the elevator to that floor, and began firing as the doors opened. Goldsberry was fatally shot and was the first victim in the attack.

The gunman wounded a man and a woman before detonating pipe bombs strapped to his body and killing himself with another explosion. Because the assailant died at the scene, no arrests were made in connection with Goldsberry’s murder.

If anyone had contact with Goldsberry at the courthouse that day or can add details about his duty post on the fourth floor, please share what is known.