Detroit — It will be 30 years ago Monday when Detroiter Robert Harrington, incensed over an insurance dispute, burst into a law office in the Buhl Building with a shotgun, pistol and jar of gasoline.
He shot to death Eve August, a promising 24-year-old law clerk intern, and his actions injured — some critically — 38 others in what came to be known as the "Buhl rampage."

Now, survivors and family members will gather three decades later in a private ceremony to remember the attack and celebrate August's life.

"Growing up, the world I knew always involved her," said her brother Lou, a 53-year-old Washington, D.C., resident. "She had such vivid qualities to her. She was incredibly kind and incredibly verbal. I never stood a chance against her in any argument whether I was right or wrong."

For August family members, the memorial promises to be cathartic. For others, it may be bittersweet.

"It's been 30 years of recovery. I see every day the effects it's had on my husband," said Vivian Hudson, whose husband, Lester, was a partner in the Bell and Hudson firm. He fell from an eighth-story window in the attack. He was critically injured with head injuries and never practiced law again.