On the night of March 10, 1999, 19-year-old Vaniaro Jackson of Gonzales, Louisiana, was attending Wednesday-night prayer and Bible study at New St. John Fellowship Church when a domestic crisis erupted into deadly violence. A gunman who had earlier killed his mother-in-law forced two men at gunpoint to drive him to the church looking for his estranged wife. Those men warned the pastor and others just before the shooter entered the sanctuary and opened fire.

Court records state Jackson was seated beside the shooter’s wife and young son when he was struck by a single gunshot wound to the head. He was one of three people killed and several others wounded in the attack. Witnesses and police quickly identified the shooter as Shon Miller Sr. He was located hiding nearby, disarmed during an arrest in which an officer’s accidental discharge wounded Miller and left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Miller was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, including Jackson’s killing; the case later proceeded through conviction, appellate review, and a guilty plea that resulted in life sentences. Did anyone who knew Vaniaro or attended that church remember him or have information about the night of March 10, 1999?