Deontrey Southers was 13 when he was shot dead at his home in Chattanooga on January 20, 2014. An eighth grader at East Lake Academy, he played on the school football team, attended The Refuge Church, and took part in Gear Up and the Goodwill Youth Mentoring Program. His mother found him wounded in the house and he died en route to the hospital.

Police say the shooting was tied to gang violence and that Deontrey was likely not the intended target. Investigators reported the gunfire was aimed at his mother’s boyfriend, who was linked to the Bounty Hunter Bloods, while the attackers were associated with the rival Athens Park Bloods. In the days after the killing several people were brought in for questioning and some were arrested on unrelated warrants or charges; those actions were described as efforts to reduce retaliatory violence.

A grand jury indictment later accused Cortez Sims, also known as Awax, of the unlawful, intentional and premeditated killing of Deontrey. Does anyone who lived in the neighborhood in 2014 remember unusual activity or have information about that night?