Andre Burley was a 19-year-old Black man from Philadelphia whose death is recorded as a gun-violence death on August 24, 2005, though a Pennsylvania Superior Court memorandum gives a conflicting court-record date of October 24, 2005. Court records state the killing grew out of a dispute over dividing proceeds from drug sales; that dispute ended with Burley being shot and killed. The investigation did not remain open without a named suspect. According to the appellate record, Michael Smith confessed to a Philadelphia detective after the shooting, and that confession was central to the criminal prosecution that followed.

Smith was tried in Philadelphia County, convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and carrying a firearm without a license, and on August 14, 2007, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus 3½ to 7 years for the firearm offense. He filed a timely appeal in September 2007; the Superior Court affirmed the judgment in November 2009. Post-conviction relief petitions filed in 2009 and 2010 were dismissed in 2012. A later PCRA petition raising newly discovered-evidence and appellate issues was dismissed as untimely and that dismissal was affirmed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in June 2018.

Are there details from 2005 in Philadelphia—witnesses, locations, or other records—that could clarify the conflicting dates or shed light on the circumstances of the dispute?