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On the evening of March 23, 1997, 17-year-old Andrea Michelle Brown was closing her shift at the McDonald’s on Lebanon Road in Hermitage, Tennessee, when she and three coworkers were confronted by an armed man as they left. The assailant forced all four back inside and into the storeroom, then opened fire. Andrea Brown and two coworkers, 27-year-old Ronald Santiago and 23-year-old Robert A. Sewell, were killed.

A fourth employee, José Antonio Ramirez Gonzalez, survived after the gun apparently malfunctioned and the attacker stabbed him seventeen times; Gonzalez pretended to be dead and survived the attack. The assailant fled after stealing money from the restaurant. Investigators identified Paul Dennis Reid as the primary suspect; he was arrested, charged in the Hermitage killings and others at fast-food restaurants, convicted on multiple first-degree murder counts and sentenced to death.

Has anyone who worked at or near that McDonald’s in 1997 any memory or information about the night Andrea was killed?