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A dispute among teenagers in Nashville turned deadly on November 3, 2015, when 14-year-old Treyonta Burleson was shot in the courtyard of the J.C. Napier Homes public housing development where she lived. An eighth-grader at Two Rivers Middle School, Treyonta was described as creative, fond of basketball and hoping to become a nurse. She was taken to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and pronounced dead.

The shooting followed an argument involving a group of teenage girls and an 18-year-old, Antwana Smith, who reportedly fired a weapon during the confrontation. Treyonta may not have been the intended target. Smith retreated into a nearby apartment, surrendered to police and was charged with criminal homicide; the firearm had been reported stolen years earlier. Smith later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and in January 2017 received a 15-year prison sentence.

Does anyone who knew Treyonta or who was in the Napier Homes area that day have information that could shed more light on what happened?