On June 8, 1980, 14-year-old Darrell Lane of Cincinnati, Ohio, was shot while walking with his 13-year-old cousin, Dante Evans Brown, to buy candy. Both boys were ambushed from a train trestle by Joseph Paul Franklin, who fired a .44-caliber rifle. Dante died at the scene; Darrell was taken to hospital and later died of his wounds.

The murders went unsolved for 17 years. In 1997 Franklin, already serving multiple life terms for other killings, confessed during an interview with an assistant prosecutor, Melissa Powers. That confession was used in the effort to secure a conviction; Franklin was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death for the deaths of Darrell Lane and Dante Evans Brown.

These killings are remembered in Cincinnati as an act of racist violence. If anyone knew Darrell or Dante, or has information about that day, please share what can help preserve their memory and the record of the case.