On the evening of December 17, 2015, in Knoxville’s Lonsdale neighborhood, 15-year-old Fulton High School sophomore and football player Zaevion William Dobson was on a porch with friends when gunfire erupted. Dobson stepped in front of three girls to shield them from the bullets; he was the only person struck and died from his injuries, while the girls were unharmed. His act of bravery was later recognized with the posthumous Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

The shooting followed an earlier non-fatal attack on Lisa Perry that day. Her son, Brandon Perry, and several men then drove to the porch and fired multiple rounds into the group. Dobson and his friends had no gang affiliations and were mistakenly targeted. Brandon Perry was later shot and killed that same night in a separate retaliatory incident.

The investigation led to the arrests of Christopher Drone Bassett, Richard Gregory Williams III, and Kipling Deshawn Colbert Jr., who were charged in connection with Dobson’s death and multiple attempted first-degree murder counts. A Knox County jury later convicted the three men; Bassett was found guilty of first-degree murder and the others convicted of facilitation of first-degree murder, with substantial prison sentences reported.

Did anyone in Lonsdale that night or nearby see activity on the street or remember vehicles that could help clarify how the attack unfolded?