On December 14, 1984, Ralph Zeller, a 33-year-old farmer, was shot in the head and killed while inside the First Bank of Chattanooga in Geronimo, Oklahoma. The shooting occurred after 19-year-old Jay Wesley Neill forced three female employees into a back room and stabbed them repeatedly; one of the women was six months pregnant. Neill then herded customers into that same room and shot each of them in the head. Three other customers who were shot survived; an 18-month-old child present was spared when the assailant’s gun was out of ammunition.

Neill and an accomplice, Robert Grady Johnson, were arrested three days later in San Francisco after spending stolen bank money. Neill was convicted on four counts of first-degree murder; Johnson was convicted for his role and received a life sentence. Does anyone have memories of Ralph Zeller or was in Geronimo at the time who can share information?