Adriane Dickerson was a 12-year-old honor student, cheerleader and church usher when she was shot and killed on October 7, 1995, in a MegaMarket parking lot in Nashville, Tennessee. She had been sent by her mother to get change and was found a few feet from the store entrance, still clutching the quarter she had been sent to buy change for.

Authorities arrested and charged two young men, Christopher Davis and Gdongalay Berry, in connection with Adriane’s murder. Convictions were secured based largely on the testimony of a key witness who said he had been with them at the time of the shooting. Berry was initially sentenced to death for his role in the killing.

Years later it was discovered that the witness who placed Berry and Davis at the scene had been incarcerated at the time of the murder, a fact that made his eyewitness account impossible and led to Berry’s death sentence being vacated. Berry remains incarcerated, now serving a life sentence, and the family has been left uncertain about who fired the fatal shot.