On the night of June 3, 2008, 11-year-old Aziz Damar Booth was shot dead inside a Charlottesville home after an acquaintance, 27-year-old Waverly Eddie Whitlock, knocked and was let in. Whitlock entered under the pretense of borrowing money, then produced a 9mm pistol, ransacked the house and filled Aziz’s backpack with video games and electronics. Aziz and his mother’s boyfriend, 23-year-old Rueben Lewis III, were forced to lie face-down on the kitchen floor; Whitlock fired a single shot into each of them. Aziz was pronounced dead at the scene; Lewis suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Whitlock turned himself in later that morning and was charged with capital murder, robbery and malicious wounding among other counts. The sixth-grader had been remembered by family as a boy with a big smile who loved basketball and had just taken part in a graduation ceremony the previous Friday. Whitlock later pleaded guilty to 10 charges under a plea agreement supported by Aziz’s family and received six life terms plus 33 years.

Did anyone in Charlottesville know Aziz or have information about what happened that night?