nothing. shooting survivor bobby stephens was unconscious in the hospital and unable to help police, but once they interrogated nathan s girlfriend, tracy, things changed. tracy admitted nathan had arrived at her house with bundles of cash and a gun. asking her to help dispose of the evidence. that afternoon, police took nathan into custody. over the next few weeks, investigators learned that before going to tracy s house, nathan visited two other friends and bragged about killing people. execution style at chuck e. cheese s. he told them what he did. he showed them the evidence of it. he showed them money. he showed them trinkets they picked up. the other people were charged as accessories. december 23rd, 1993, police charged nathan dunlap with four counts of first-degree murder. prosecutors would now need to decide what punishment to seek. life in prison, or the death penalty.
javad marshall-fields and his fiancee, vivian wolfe, were on their way out to dinner. javad had a brilliant smile. vivian just loved life. they were both recent graduates from colorado state university. she had just graduated with a b.a. in nutrition, and my son had just graduated with a bachelor s degree in speech communication and rhetoric. just three miles from where the chuck e. cheese s massacre had taken place, javad and vivian were stopped at a red light when a car pulled alongside and someone opened fire. gunmen attacked this car with bullets, killing javad marshall-fields and vivian wolfe. finding out that i had lost
for some reason that night, we didn t. the phone rings. and it s my sister. she said, jody, there s something on the news about chuck e. cheese. is that the chuck e. cheese restaurant that colleen works at? so we went down there and they told us to go into tony roma s. went into tony roma s and colleen was not there and i started shaking. i started shaking. a friend of mine called. he was on the police force. and he said, there s been a shooting down at chuck e. cheese. and he said, well, you better come down here right away. the police officer came up and said, your daughter has been air lifted to denver general. we were told that she was taken to a hospital, so i went and saw that she was breathing,
blood, stumbled through the dining room and fled through a side door in search for help. all i saw was a patio light. i stumbled along the way, but i trun that light as fast as i could. emergency, 911. listen, i have a man who s been shot in my house right here. he claims from chuck e. cheese. he explains there s been a lot of people shot there. we have a call in for chuck e. cheese. we have paramedics and officer en route. i need someone to help me search the place. we have several people down. of course, media picked up on it very quickly. parents are responding. people are calling each other. the parking lot is a zoo. everyone, whole community, was just, a shooting at chuck e. cheese? no, no. the normally festive pizza shop was transformed into a scene of carnage and chaos. my best friends are in there. they won t even say anything and it drives us crazy. police say it s the worst crime in aurora in years. we always had the news on. always.
i d only been there for two weeks, but it was business as normal. also working that night were 19-year-old sylvia crowell, a student at nearby metro state college. ben grant, a 17-year-old high school wrestler. and colleen o connor, also 17, a senior at eagle crest high school. marge kohlberg, 50, and a mother of 2 was working her first night alone as manager. out in the dining room sat 19-year-old former employee, nathan dunlap. nathan dunlap worked there for a time but is ultimately let go. he had an attitude problem and is a bit of a discipline issue for the management. so on the particular night in question, nathan dunlap goes into that chuck e. cheese and he orders dinner. dunlap plays video games. played a shooter video game, hogan s alley. chuck e. cheese closes.