Amanda Jean Burns, 21, was shot and killed on October 26, 2005, in Lansingburgh, New York. The shooting happened just before midnight in an alley off 102nd Street and Sixth Avenue while she sat in the passenger seat of a Jeep Cherokee; the cause of death was a gunshot wound from a 9mm handgun.

Prosecutors said Alberto A.J. Rivera killed Burns because she was prepared to give a police statement identifying him as a suspect in an arson case. Rivera was arrested and convicted in 2007 of second-degree murder and weapons charges and sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder and 15 years for the weapons counts, concurrent. That conviction was later overturned by an appellate court, which ruled the jury should have been allowed to consider second-degree manslaughter. The weapons convictions were left intact.

At retrial, in April 2011 Rivera was convicted of the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to the maximum 15 years for Burns’s killing. Defense suggestions during the proceedings pointed to Burns’s former boyfriend, who was in the vehicle and did not cooperate, but he was never charged. Derrick Rosa was identified as the person who supplied the gun and served time for that offense.

Does anyone have memories of Amanda or information about the people involved that could shed more light on what happened that night?