Cheyenne E. Farewell was 20 and a SUNY Brockport student with plans to become an English teacher when she was killed on the night of October 17, 2020. She was at a Halloween party on South Niagara Street in Lockport when gunfire erupted outside the garage where the party was being held; bullets pierced the closed metal door and Cheyenne was struck, dying en route to the hospital. Five others at the party, ages 15 to 21, were also wounded in the indiscriminate shooting.

Investigators concluded Cheyenne was not the intended target; prosecutors said the shooters were acting on a grudge that did not involve her or the other victims. Within days of the shooting, two teenagers, 16 and 17, and a 21-year-old, Jonathan Frey, were arrested in connection with the incident. The 17-year-old, Shawn Johnson, later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, multiple assaults, and a weapons charge and received a 20 years to life sentence. The 16-year-old who did not fire the weapon pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, was granted youthful offender status and received a one and one-third to four year sentence. Jonathan Frey pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution and was sentenced to two to four years in prison.

Does anyone have information about Cheyenne’s last hours at the party or recall seeing anything unusual on South Niagara Street that night?