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Kristopher Kris Carlyle was 28 when he was shot and killed in Nashville on the night of July 6, 2005. He had moved to Nashville two months earlier to pursue a country music career. That evening his mother, sister and her boyfriend were visiting; after dinner the family got temporarily lost downtown and were approached by a group of four young men at about 10:30 p.m.

Kris surrendered $10, but Vaughn insisted it was not enough. As Kris’s mother attempted to drive away, Vaughn fired a single shot through the car that struck Kris in the neck. He was taken to Centennial Medical Center and pronounced dead.

The case was prosecuted: Vaughn was arrested, tried as an adult, and in December 2005 convicted of first-degree felony murder and aggravated robbery, receiving a life sentence. If anyone remembers Kris, that parking lot encounter, or saw anything that night, does that information still exist for family or investigators to hear?