On the evening of May 7, 1981, Lori J. Cunningham, a 22-year-old female paralegal, was at the Oregon Museum Tavern in Salem, Oregon. It was a ladies' night at the tavern on Front Street NE, and the establishment was crowded with patrons. The night took a horrific turn at approximately 10:30 p.m. when a man entered the tavern and, without a word, began shooting a 9mm Browning handgun.
The gunman, later identified as 25-year-old unemployed mill worker Lawrence William Moore, first fired at
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