at three o'clock in the afternoon on february 16 1988 farley shot through the glass doors of esl armed with 98 pounds of weaponry including an assault rifle four handguns and 1100 rounds of ammunition farley walked through hallways shooting at everything that moved within 30 minutes he'd killed seven injured two and had committed one of the worst massacres in california's history i started out the door and there were people standing out there and they said no get back in the building there's shooting an m5 and of course you could hear it and just seemed to go on and on and it was it was a nightmare the older employees seemed to know who it was and and why you're saying the people who worked in that building knew it was richard farley and knew what it was about yes it was my decision to get a restraining order and i knew that you know very likely that would trigger him i had no idea that he would take it out on more than just me farley later told police he did it to show people at esl who'd laughed at him that he wasn't a wimp but one of his first victims was someone he didn't even know 23 year old buddy williams but he had his whole life ahead of him you know he had he was married they were looking forward to children very soon he was a brand new employee just going to san jose state 43 year old joseph silva was the last of farley's seven victims he was running and was shot in the back by farley he tried to get up from the floor and as he was trying to get up farley walked up behind him and point blank he shot him again and just wanted to make sure that he finished the job that he started he wanted to make sure that he killed him after indiscriminately killing people in the hallways farley made sure he found laura black's office and shot her before she managed to close her office door i could feel my lungs starting to fill up with blood she knew if she stayed in the office she would bleed to death then in the silence of the building where dozens of people were hiding she heard farley again it so happened that he was in the office next to me on the telephone talking with the police and so i knew that the office i had had two exits and his only had one just because i knew the building well enough and so i figured that was my chance to escape as laura managed to drag herself outside this is what farley told police on the phone i just wanted to stop hanging up on me and stop trying to treat me like she wasn't going to get away with it i wasn't going to let her get away with it but laura was the only one farley showed any remorse over is she okay i don't know that yet there's a lot of people have been taken to the hospital you know yeah well i hope she lives i hope she's okay and i hope she never does this to anybody else again after five and a half hours farley surrendered he was eventually convicted of seven counts of first-degree murder today he is on death row at san quentin he's a hideous human being who was on a power trip it had nothing to do with unrequited love it was all about power all about control and he set himself above everyone else in society and they should pay the ultimate price incredibly the relatives of those who died still focus some of their anger at laura do you feel sorry for laura black no as a woman i cannot believe tolerating unwanted attention for four years if it had begun been against the law to do that then i would have taken action but it wasn't at the time but today because of laura's ordeal stalking the crime in california and whether or not your state has a stalking law she has some advice for victims i think that they need to be encouraged to take action if in fact they're being stopped because if they don't i mean it can escalate and it can feed itself and i think that's what happened in my case