Stephen Edward Holton was twelve when he was killed on November 30, 1997, in Shelbyville, Tennessee. He and his brothers Brent, ten, and Eric, six, and their four-year-old half-sister Kayla Marie Holton were with their father for what they had been told would be a day of Christmas shopping. The children were taken to the uncle’s auto repair garage where their father, Daryl Keith Holton, used a Chinese-made semi-automatic rifle to shoot them. Stephen and Brent were shot first and their bodies concealed before Eric and Kayla were called over and killed.

About an hour later Holton drove to the Shelbyville Police Department and surrendered, telling the dispatcher he wished to report a homicide times four and saying families should stay together and a father should be with his children. Investigators found pipe bombs Holton admitted were intended for his ex-wife. He was arrested, charged with four counts of first-degree murder, convicted of premeditated first-degree murder and sentenced to death.

What can readers add about Stephen’s life or the children’s routine that day that might help remember them?