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Charles Chet Planchard was 16 when he was shot and killed while working a shift at a Burger King in Cobb County, Georgia, on March 21, 1992. A student at Wheeler High School and a three-sport athlete, he had taken the job to save for a car. According to accounts, a man who placed an order approached the counter; as Chet opened the cash register to make change, the man fatally shot him. Chet died clutching the $2 he had just been handed, and a child’s toy was found in his pocket.

Investigators linked the killing to a crime spree in Cobb County from January 20 to March 31, 1992, that left three other people dead. The suspect, Ronald Freeman, then 21, was wounded by police while fleeing and was arrested. Freeman was tried and convicted for the murders; at Chet’s 1995 trial he escaped the death penalty when one juror held out and received life sentences for each murder. Chet’s family has held vigils and opposed any potential release of Freeman.

If anyone remembers Chet, his time at Wheeler High School, or the Burger King on March 21, what do they recall that might add to the record?