Helin, Gertrude Kandi, a DoDDS (Department of Defense Dependents School System) school teacher, was shot and killed early morning 20 Dec (approximately 0030) on Gaillard Highway as she and her husband, Steven Helin (a Panama Canal Commission employee), were returning to their home at nearby Los Rios housing area. Their car was exposed to semi-automatic weapons fire by an unidentified individual in fatigue pants on Gaillard Highway near Albrook Air Force Station.

Paul, Richard A., son of DoDDS school teacher Yolanda Paul, died of gunshot wounds early morning 20 Dec (shortly after midnight) while returning home in La Boca from a party in Cardenas with a friend. He apparently ran a U.S. roadblock near the Panama Canal Commission Printing Plant (in total darkness) where soldiers signaled him to stop. When he failed to stop and ran the roadblock (not known if intentional), U.S. soldiers fired on the car. Mark Mirrop, a passenger, was injured by the gunfire. Paul graduated from Balboa High School in 1985 and later from the Panama Canal College in La Boca.

Dragseth, Raymond, 47, a DoDDS computer science teacher at the Panama Canal College, was shot and killed some time after having been abducted from his Punta Paitilla apartment about 3 a.m. 20 Dec 89 in the presence of his family by four gunmen with revolvers and AK-47 rifles who claimed they were members of the Panama Defense Forces. His body was later found near the Trans-isthmian Highway near Las Cumbres (outside Panama City), taken to Santo Tomas Hospital on 23 December and buried as a "John Doe." Anel Beliz, then an aide to President Endara and Dragseth's brother-in-law, informed U.S. authorities that a body fitting the general description of Dragseth had been buried. The body was exhumed and identified by dental records on 29 December. (Victoria, his wife, is the sister of Richard Paul's mother.) The perpetrators of the killing were later identified and tried but declared not guilty by a Panamanian jury.