Dean A. Mellberg, shown in this 1992 high school yearbook photo, killed four people and wounded 23
at Fairchild Air Force Base on Monday, June 20, 1994, before a military police officer shot him dead.
He had been discharged from the Air Force for psychiatric problems and was formerly from Lansing, Mich.
(Photo Archive / The Spokesman-Review)

Residents flee a Fairchild Air Force Base housing compound as police evacuate
the area after the June 20, 1994, shootings. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Children flee the housing compound inside Fairchild Air Force Base as police
evacuate the area on June 20, 1994, after Dean Mellberg opened fire on the base.
(Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

Residents of military housing near the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital run to
a neighboring house as they wait to be evacuated.
(Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)

An Air Force security officer turns back residents from the housing area inside
Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane on June 20, 1994. (Dan Pelle / The
Spokesman-Review)

Medical crews move a shooting victim from an ambulance to a helicopter Monday,
June 20, 1994, after a gunman opened fire at Fairchild Air Force Base outside of
Spokane. Dean Mellberg killed four people before being fatally shot. Twenty
three others were wounded by the gunman. who was an airman at the base.
(FILE / Associated Press)

Emergency workers prepare to transport Sam Spencer, who was shot in Dean
Mellberg’s rampage inside the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital on June 20,
1994. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Andrew Brown, 24, appears in a 1994 family photo.
Brown put an end to former Airman Dean Mellberg’s killing spree at Fairchild Air
Force Base by shooting Mellberg with at least two rounds, one between the eyes.
Brown was awarded the Airman’s Medal for his action.
(The Bremerton Sun)
 

Spokane County sheriff’s Detective Jim Hansen looks over the AK-47 assault rifle
that was used by Dean Mellberg to kill four people and injure 23 people on June
20, 1994. The magazine holds 70 rounds. (Photo Archive / The Spokesman-Review)

Three bullet holes are outlined by spray paint at the spot where Anita Lindner
was killed June 20, 1994, outside the hospital at Fairchild Air Force Base.
(Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)

A few days after Dean Mellberg’s shooting spree at Fairchild Air Force Base,
Staff Sgt. Sue Conard points out the bloody spot in the grass where Mellberg
fell after he was shot dead outside the hospital annex. (Sandra
Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)

Hundreds of mourners pour out of the Fairchild Air Force Base chapel after
services for the victims of gunman Dean Mellberg on Thursday, June 23, 1994.
Major Thomas Brigham, Capt. Alan London, Anita Lindner and Christin McCarron
were eulogized during the 45-minute service. (Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The
Spokesman-Review)

Candice Lindner traces the letters of her mother’s name on the memorial
dedicated at Fairchild Air Force Base in this August 1995 photo. Anita Lindner
died in June 1994 during the Fairchild Hospital shooting tragedy. The memorial
is dedicated to the victims from the B-52 accident and the hospital shootings.
(Photo Archive / The Spokesman-Review)

Among Dean Mellberg’s victims was Anita Lindner, a mother of three and Camp Fire
leader who started a camp for children in Cheney.
(Courtesy of the Lindner family)

Dr. Thomas Brigham, photographed in 1979, was among Dean Mellberg’s victims.
Brigham was raised in Mobile, Ala., and attended Purdue University and the
University of South Alabama Medical School. (Mobile Press Register)

Orson Lee, a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant, recovers at Deaconess Hospital after being hit
 by shrapnel during Dean Mellberg’s shooting spree at Fairchild Air Force Base.
(Christopher Anderson / The Spokesman-Review)

Fairchild shooting victim Janessa Zucchetto, 5, leaves Sacred Heart Medical
Center with her mother June 23, 1994. (Photo Archive / The Spokesman-Review)
 

Anthony Zucchetto, 4, photographed at home in August 1994, spent the summer
after the Dean Mellberg shootings recuperating from a gunshot wound.
(Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)

Mark Hess was shot through the thigh while diving to get away from Dean Mellberg
on June 20, 1994, during Mellberg’s shooting spree at Fairchild Air Force Base
hospital. Hess was released from the Holy Family two days later.
(Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)

Sam Spencer, 12, was wounded in the Dean Mellberg shootings at Fairchild Air
Force Base. He was readmitted to Deaconess in late July for a few days. Sam told
a nurse, “I thought there were firecrackers coming out of the halls. Then my leg
started bleeding.” (Sandra Bancroft-Billings / The Spokesman-Review)