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On October 13, 2016, at about 8 p.m. in Buffalo, New York, 16-year-old Kristian Piazza was shot and killed in a double shooting at the intersection of Leroy Avenue and Hill Street. Another 16-year-old, Terrell Lockett, was wounded in the same incident. Piazza was a junior at Burgard Vocational High School studying to be a welder and worked at a local Wegmans; he was remembered as someone who could bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Buffalo Police identified and arrested a 16-year-old suspect in April 2017; the suspect was later named Lawren Goins of Buffalo and charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. In November 2017 Goins pleaded guilty to Manslaughter in the First Degree and Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, and in January 2018 he was sentenced to 25 years in state prison for his role in Piazza’s death and Lockett’s wounding.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or at Burgard Vocational High School have information about that night or about Kristian’s activities leading up to October 13, 2016?