Xzariah Rice was 16 when she was found among three victims of a June 19, 2018 triple homicide at a residence on Knollbrook Drive in Huntsville, Alabama. She was an honors student and a dancer — a member of the Jemison High School Jaguarette Dance Team and captain of Limelight Dance Production — remembered by friends and family as goofy, happy, and kind.

Xzariah, her 17-year-old friend Heaven Hines, and Heaven’s 42-year-old mother Iris Koress Bynum were discovered about 12 hours after they were killed, after a concerned relative contacted police. Investigation identified 43-year-old Rodney Shawn Geddes, who had been in a previous relationship with Bynum and had been living in the home before a recent separation, as a suspect. Geddes was located in Franklin County, Tennessee, taken into custody on unrelated charges, extradited to Huntsville, and later indicted by a grand jury on three counts of capital murder in October 2019.