The Nation - News from Jan. 5, 1989

A gunman who held 20 people hostage at a Loveland, Colo., restaurant before being shot to death by police told a waitress to fetch his boots from his truck because “a good cowboy dies with his boots on,” the woman said. As Wayne Strozzi, 35, hung on, mortally wounded, he shot to death another waitress. Another hostage was slain by police as he escaped through a bathroom window and fled the Riverhouse Restaurant during Tuesday’s melee. Two police officers also were wounded by Strozzi during the incident, which began when the paroled drug offender, apparently angry that his estranged wife had begun dating another man, assaulted her at her home.