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Craig Lambert was 19 and a student at Tennessee State University when he was fatally shot in Hadley Park in Nashville on the night of May 30, 2015. He suffered a single gunshot wound to the head while with a group of fellow students. Initial accounts conflicted: one student, Kennedy Lanier, first told a 911 operator the shooting was a drive-by, then later said Craig had accidentally shot himself.

Investigators were told that six students had gone to the park intending to rob a drug dealer and that three of them, including Craig and Brandon Horton, had firearms. Witnesses said they heard a gun fall and then a single shot while the group was in a pavilion, but none could identify which weapon fired. After the shot, some students left the scene and returned to a dorm to dispose of the guns; those firearms were never recovered. Darren Terrell stayed briefly to place Craig on the grass and Lanier called for help.

Brandon Horton was arrested and charged; his original charge was first-degree murder but at trial a judge reduced it to reckless homicide. In July 2017 a jury acquitted Horton after about 25 minutes of deliberation. Does anyone have additional information about the night at Hadley Park or knew Craig and can shed light on what happened?