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Wayne Sanchez, 52, walked into a Peet's Coffee and Tea in San Jose on the night of Jan. 15, 2011, and fatally shot the man he had long blamed for the disappearance of his sister, then killed himself in the parking lot as officers arrived, authorities said.

The confrontation began earlier that evening at a Red Robin restaurant on Saratoga Avenue, where police said Sanchez accused Maurice Nasmeh, 46, of murdering his sister, Jeanine Harms. It carried over to the adjacent coffee shop at the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center, where Sanchez drew a handgun and opened fire.

A store employee dialed 911. According to San Jose police, who later released the recording, the call started as a report of a disturbance and turned urgent when the caller saw Sanchez pull the gun. Officers reaching the scene heard a single shot from the parking lot and found Sanchez dead of a self-inflicted wound. "The suspect retrieved a handgun and fatally shot the victim," Officer Jose Garcia said. "The suspect then exited Peet's Coffee, went out into the parking lot, and as the officers arrived to the scene, they heard what they believe was a single gunshot."

Harms, 42, of Los Gatos, vanished on July 27, 2001, after a night out at the Pruneyard shopping center in Campbell. Nasmeh, an architect from San Jose, was among the last people known to have seen her and told investigators he had followed her home that night. Her body was never recovered, and authorities presumed her dead.

Nasmeh was arrested in 2004 and held for more than two years on a charge of killing Harms. A judge dismissed the case in 2007 after prosecutors, citing problems with the crime lab, conceded they were not ready for trial. Nasmeh maintained his innocence.

On the afternoon of the shooting, a supervisor in the office of newly elected Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen tried to reach Harms's parents to tell them the office had renewed the investigation, but the call went unanswered, Rosen said. "When I found out on Sunday morning what had happened, I was very distraught and I wish that we'd been able to make contact," he said.

In August 2011, about seven months after the shootings, prosecutors announced that long-delayed fiber testing had tied Nasmeh to the killing. Investigators said they considered the case closed, apart from the possibility of one day recovering Harms's remains.