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On the evening of August 26, 2004, 16-year-old Terrence Merchant was outside a home on T.S. Martin Drive in Columbia, South Carolina, with a 12-year-old friend, Courtney Dixon, when a group of young men approached and one person opened fire. Both teenagers were critically wounded and taken to a nearby hospital. Terrence died on Friday, August 27, 2004.

Columbia Police focused their investigation on 19-year-old Chris Anthony Liverman, who investigators believed was targeting a rival and had fired in what they described as a mistaken-identity shooting tied to gang activity. Liverman was arrested and indicted on two counts of murder. A first trial in August 2006 ended in a mistrial after jurors discussed the case prematurely; a second jury convicted him of two counts of murder in November 2006 and he received two consecutive life sentences.

Does anyone have information about the people who were with Terrence that night or about witnesses who may not have come forward?