Michael Christopher Dillon was 17 and a junior at Huntington High School when he was shot dead in the early morning hours of May 22, 2005. He had attended the school prom with Megan Brooke Poston; by about 4:30 a.m. Dillon, Poston, Donté Ward and Eddrick Clark were together outside Ward’s home at 1410 Charleston Avenue in Huntington when all four were killed. A nearby resident reported hearing a burst of gunfire, a pause during which a girl pleaded for her life, then more shots.

Investigators initially questioned several people and pursued leads tied to drug activity between Detroit and Huntington. A cooperating witness later implicated Jamal LaRonne Ray (also identified as Jamal Douglas), and another witness, Shannon Dennis, said he witnessed the killings and assisted the getaway; police linked a white 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo to Ray. Ray was never charged in the quadruple homicide; he pleaded guilty to a separate federal felon-in-possession charge and received prison time. Cherylethia Bunny Holmes was publicly alleged by investigators to have ordered the shootings but was never charged in this case; she was convicted in a different 2004 homicide.

What details about that prom night or the people present might still help explain why the teenagers ended up at Charleston Avenue?