On August 11, 1976, 23-year-old Mark Falen was killed in downtown Wichita, Kansas, when a shooter on the top floor of the 26-story Holiday Inn fired into the street. Falen, a bank loan officer, was struck in the neck and taken to St. Francis Hospital, where he died. Two other people — Joe Goulart, 56, and Elmer Hensley, 57 — were also killed and seven more were wounded during the attack.

The shooter, 19-year-old Michael Soles of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, had brought two rifles and a lunch pail of ammunition and fired from a high-floor balcony. Five police officers reached an adjoining balcony, wounded and captured Soles, and he was later convicted and given three life sentences. Falen’s death remains one of the fatal outcomes from that day of violence.

Did anyone who knew Mark Falen remember where he worked or spent time in Wichita before August 11, 1976?