Tahliek Jamar Leek Taliaferro was 18 and a high school football player when he was shot dead in Flat Rock, Virginia, on June 24, 2008. The killing grew out of a reported feud with Joseph Joey Parrish Jr. On the night of the shooting, Joey Parrish, his 22-year-old cousin Ethan Parrish, and Stephanie Reynolds were in a car. After the car stopped, a confrontation ended with Tahliek shot in the back of the head and another teenager wounded.

Ethan Parrish, Joey Parrish Jr., and Stephanie Reynolds were initially charged with premeditated murder. Reynolds later received immunity in exchange for her testimony. A jury reduced the murder charge against the Parrish cousins to involuntary manslaughter; Ethan received 11 years, and Joey 16 years, with Joey’s longer term tied to a felon-in-possession finding rather than firing the weapon. The verdict and sentences prompted protests and accusations of racial bias from civil rights advocates and Tahliek’s family.

Who knew Tahliek or was in the area that night and can share what they saw or heard?