On the night of October 19, 1978, Troy Lee Curry, 28, was shot and killed in the parking lot of Abigail’s Bar in the Belleville–Ypsilanti area. Curry was one of five people killed and two wounded during a single violent rampage that night.

Authorities say the attacker, 21-year-old Billy Edward Hardesty, had first murdered his parents, Ronald and Jeanette Hardesty, at their home before going to Abigail’s Bar and fatally shooting Curry and Timothy Schofield. The spree continued at a nearby machine shop, where Daniel E. Wood was killed and two other men were wounded. Officers cornered Hardesty at his parents’ home after an hour-long standoff; he was wounded in a subsequent gun battle and taken into custody.

Hardesty was tried following competency hearings; in 1981 a jury convicted him on multiple counts including first-degree and second-degree murder and assault with intent to murder, and he received multiple life terms. Does anyone have memories of Troy Curry or information about that night that could add to the record?