On a warm summer evening in Rifle, Colorado, the night of July 3, 2001, turned into a scene of terror and tragedy. Melquiades Medrano-Velasquez, a 23-year-old Hispanic male, was senselessly killed in a violent rampage that claimed the lives of three others and wounded several more. The tranquility of the small town was shattered by a man whose mind was reportedly clouded by mental illness and racial animosity.
The evening's horror began to unfold when Steven Michael Stagner, a 42-year-old
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