On the morning of November 3, 1999, 27-year-old office manager Peter Giles was working at the Northlake Shipyard on Lake Union in Seattle when a gunman entered the office and opened fire. Giles and a colleague, 43-year-old Russell Brisendine, were killed; two other men, Jaromir Mach and Patrick Ming, were wounded. The shooter wore a baseball hat and sunglasses and fled the scene. The shipyard was co-owned by Giles’s uncles.

After two months with few leads, a mountain biker found a foil-lined backpack in Gasworks Park in January 2000. Inside were a camouflage jacket, a holster, and the 9mm handgun used in the killings; a DNA sample from the holster matched former shipyard worker Kevin Cruz. Prosecutors said Cruz harbored a grudge after the company stopped his disability payments following a finding he had faked an injury. Cruz was arrested at his SeaTac home in early January 2000, admitted the backpack was his, and investigators found a bullet in his bedroom that had markings showing it had been cycled through the murder weapon. Two surviving victims later identified Cruz in court, and in February 2002 a King County jury convicted him of two counts of aggravated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.

Are there details about Giles’s life at the shipyard or his time with the company that anyone can share?