On July 8, 2009, 8-year-old Heather Brooke Center, a rising third-grader at Reidville Elementary School in Chesnee, South Carolina, was shot four times at close range with a .357 Magnum and killed. The attack was described as planned: the shooter took a handgun from a lock box at his father’s home, drove to a spot where he expected to find Brooke, parked in a nearby garage to conceal his presence, then approached and shot her. The perpetrator was 55-year-old Ricky Lee Blackwell, who investigators said acted out of jealousy because his estranged wife was dating Brooke’s father. After the shooting, Blackwell shot himself in the stomach but survived.

He was arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping. Prosecutors presented evidence of planning at his trial; faculty and staff from Brooke’s school testified about the child she was. In March 2014 a Spartanburg County jury convicted Blackwell of murder and kidnapping and sentenced him to death.

Did anyone in the Chesnee area know Heather or have information about her routine that could add detail to the timeline?