A high school feud at Kearns High School in winter 2009 ended with a bystander’s death. On January 21, a pre-arranged noon fight between two 16-year-old students, Ricky Angilau and Erik Flores, drew a crowd. After Flores won the fistfight, Angilau produced a gun and fired: a warning shot scattered onlookers, then two or three more rounds were fired. One bullet struck 16-year-old Esteban Manuel Saidi, a sophomore who was not part of the fight. Friends took him back to the school; he later died that night at Intermountain Medical Center from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Angilau and an accomplice surrendered about an hour after the shooting and were taken into custody. Angilau’s case moved between juvenile and adult court; charged initially with murder, he later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced in September 2012 to up to five years in prison. Esteban’s mother said her son was not involved in gangs and forgave Angilau while mourning the loss of a good son with hopes for the future.

Are there classmates, neighbors, or witnesses who remember the crowd that day or who can shed light on how the confrontation escalated?