On August 20, 1982, Pedro Vasques was killed during a mass shooting at Bob Moore’s Welding and Machine Service in Miami, Florida. Contemporary accounts and later summaries identify him among the eight people fatally shot when 51-year-old teacher Carl Robert Brown opened fire inside the shop late that morning; Vasques is listed as the shop foreman in some records of the victims. Ethnicity for the victim was not specified in the reports I could locate.
Investigators determined that Brown had purchased the shotgun only hours earlier, then entered the business and fired repeatedly, killing eight and wounding three. After the attack, Brown left the scene on a bicycle; two witnesses pursued him and one fired a shot that struck Brown as they used a car to stop him near Miami International Airport. Brown died shortly thereafter, so there was no arrest in the case. Officials later indicated no charges would be filed against the citizen who stopped Brown.
Multiple sources that catalog the victims of that day list Pedro “Vasques/Vasquez,” age 44, among those killed, and place the attack at 3147 NW North River Drive in Miami. While the surviving and deceased victims included several people with Spanish-language surnames, none of the primary sources I found explicitly state the ethnicity of Pedro Vasques. Known wounded survivors included Eduardo Lima and Carlos Vazquez Sr. and Jr.. There have been no subsequent arrests because the perpetrator died at the scene of the pursuit on the same date, August 20, 1982.
In sum: Pedro Vasques died of gunshot wounds in the Miami welding-shop mass shooting on August 20, 1982. The identified shooter, Carl Robert Brown, was killed during a citizen intervention immediately after the attack; therefore, no suspects remain at large and no arrests were made. Ethnicity for the victim is not reported in the sources consulted.
