Victor Rea was 20 and living in Garden Grove when he was shot dead on November 5, 1984. He was working as a clerk at a gas station in Santa Ana when the killer shot him in the head during a robbery. The slaying was one of four murders committed over roughly 25 days in October and November 1984; all four victims were young men working as clerks at gas stations or drive-in dairies in Orange and Riverside counties.

Authorities later identified Teofilo Medina Jr. as the perpetrator of the spate of killings that also included Horacio Ariza Jr., 20, and Douglas Michael Metal, 23. The spree reportedly yielded less than $450 in total. At trial Medina’s defense raised claims of severe mental illness and an extremely low IQ, and said he could not remember the killings; court findings about sanity were part of the record.

Anyone who knew Victor, saw him at work, or has information about the Santa Ana gas station where he was killed is asked to come forward.