Nine-year-old Jermaine Ny Goffigan, an African American boy, was struck and killed by a stray bullet on Halloween night, 1994, in the Academy Homes public housing development in Roxbury, Boston. He had been returning from a Halloween party when the shooting occurred.

Initial investigation led to the arrest and conviction of Donnell Johnson, who spent nearly six years in custody based largely on eyewitness testimony that included Jermaine’s brother. Those charges were later dropped when the District Attorney’s office entered a nolle prosequi, and Johnson was released.

A decade after the killing, two other men, Michael Brown and Bennie Santos, were identified in connection with the shooting; in August 2004 both pleaded guilty to involvement in Jermaine’s death. What details from that night remain unclear?