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A July 2016 house party on Aviator Circle in Snellville, Georgia, ended in gunfire. About 100 teenagers were at the gathering when a dispute escalated and multiple shots were fired. Seventeen-year-old Jahlah Branch of Lithonia was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Family accounts say Jahlah had just returned from a college football camp and, according to witnesses relayed by his father Saviour Branch, tried to shield two girls from the shooting before being struck. Many attendees fled the scene, complicating the Gwinnett County Police Department’s efforts to reconstruct what happened.

Months after the shooting, two arrests were announced: in October a 19-year-old, Aundre Brooks of Lithonia, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct for firing a weapon after the initial shots; in January a 16-year-old, Trevais Ways of Snellville, was arrested and charged as an adult with felony murder and aggravated assault, with investigators alleging the shooting began over a stolen cellphone. Did anyone at that party or nearby that night see something that could clarify how events unfolded?