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On the morning of June 9, 2010, 17-year-old DaChanna Deshay Dotson was on her grandmother’s front porch on Porter Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee, holding her 8-month-old nephew when gunfire erupted. DaChanna grabbed the infant and ran into the house; the baby was unharmed but a bullet struck DaChanna in the side and she collapsed in the hallway. She was later pronounced dead at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.

Police say the shooting was not aimed at DaChanna but at a neighbor, Antonio Miller, who had been involved in an earlier argument and had taken refuge on the porch as the shooting began. Knoxville Police identified two suspects, Samuel Lamar Glass and Akeem Deshawn Dubose. Dubose, who drove the car that night, pleaded to facilitation of murder and received a 25-year sentence after agreeing to testify against Glass. A jury convicted Glass of first-degree murder, felony murder, and attempted murder; testimony at trial said Glass fired the AK-47 that killed DaChanna.

DaChanna had been a high-school student who hoped to become a pediatrician and was raised by her grandmothers after her parents died. Does anyone have information about DaChanna, her family, or the events that night?