Jeremy Javies was 16 when he was killed on March 22, 1995, after a rupture in a friendship that escalated into fatal violence. Court records say David Phillip Smith came to Jeremy’s Clayton, Georgia, home that day, argued with him on the front porch, and later the two went into nearby woods with shotguns. Neighbors reported hearing a single blast, a pause, then a rapid burst of more shots.

Jeremy was found the next day with a blue book bag holding the guns and had suffered six, and possibly seven, shotgun wounds: injuries to his arms and shoulders, a press-contact blast to the neck that fractured vertebrae, and one or possibly two press-contact shots to the face, all from a 12-gauge shotgun. An acquaintance, Lamar Hopkins, testified Smith told him he had just killed Jeremy and that Smith said he acted because he feared Jeremy would tell on him for possessing the guns. Smith was arrested the day after the killing, indicted August 10, 1995, convicted by a jury in January 1997 and sentenced to death; subsequent appellate proceedings affected those convictions.

Did anyone who knew Jeremy or was in Clayton in 1995 hear or see anything in the days after March 22 that could shed further light on what happened?