On a September afternoon in 2016, six-year-old first grader Jacob Lee Hall was on the playground at Townville Elementary School in South Carolina for a classmate’s birthday when a 14-year-old opened fire on students and teachers. A bullet struck Jacob in the leg, severing his femoral artery and causing massive blood loss. He was airlifted to a hospital and placed on life support but suffered a severe brain injury and died on October 1, 2016, surrounded by his family.

The shooter was identified as Jesse Osborne, 14, who had earlier that day shot and killed his father, 47-year-old Jeffrey Osborne, at home. Osborne then drove his father’s pickup about three miles to the school, crashed it into a fence by the playground, and began shooting. A volunteer firefighter tackled and subdued him until law enforcement arrived. Another student and a teacher were injured but survived.

Osborne was tried as an adult, charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors said he had communicated online with a small group that studied and encouraged school shootings. At sentencing, victims’ families and community members testified and the judge noted Osborne’s apparent lack of remorse. Do readers have memories of Jacob or information about that day that could help preserve his story?