Tessa Faye Groves was 17 and a senior at Woodville High School when she was fatally shot on Tuesday, September 18, 2012, in Scottsboro, Alabama. Born July 7, 1995, in Huntsville, she worked at a local Wendy’s and was described as having a spunky attitude despite struggles from a young age.

Scottsboro police responded to a 911 call shortly after 9 p.m. at a Quincy Street residence. Officers found Tessa dead inside the home and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Jonathan Maurice Nicholson, outside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his face. Nicholson was taken to Huntsville Hospital in stable condition and placed in the intensive care unit. Friends said the couple had recently broken up and jealousy over contact with an ex-boyfriend who had been released from prison was reported as a possible motive. The house, belonging to Nicholson’s aunt, had seen violence there before when Nicholson’s father was stabbed by a live-in girlfriend five years earlier.

Did anyone in Scottsboro know Tessa or have information about the events that night?