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On an August night in 2014, 24-year-old Fran Daniel Frankie Caratini, a Puerto Rican man, was shot multiple times and found on Chapel Street in the New Providence area of Clarksville, Tennessee. The shooting followed a dispute at a party over a $325 gun Caratini had sold; the buyer, Shaquille Dwayne Miles (also known as Hazard), complained the firearm was defective and demanded a refund. Friends urged Caratini to return the money and one even offered to cover it, but Caratini refused. Miles shot the unarmed Caratini; Caratini attempted to flee and then collapsed from a fatal chest wound.

The investigation went cold for years until Detective Keenan Carlton reassigned the case and reexamined existing leads. On October 23, 2020, Miles was arrested at his workplace and charged with criminal homicide. The case went to trial in July 2023; defense claims included alleged sloppy investigation, lack of physical evidence and lost items, and reliance on hearsay. An issue over disclosure of an inmate interview that allegedly reported a confession led to a plea agreement. On July 27, 2023, Miles pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to three years.

Did anyone in the New Providence area remember the party or the $325 gun dispute that August night?