On the night of April 15, 1994, 18-year-old Tamika Renee Collins was working at a Popeye’s restaurant in Gadsden, Alabama, when two armed men, Robert Bryant Melson and Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita, entered the business intending to rob it. After taking more than $2,100, the men forced Tamika and three co-workers—Nathaniel Baker, 17, Darrell Collier, 23, and Bryant Archer—into a walk-in freezer and shot them at close range.

Tamika, Nathaniel, and Darrell died from their wounds. Bryant Archer survived despite being critically injured with five gunshot wounds; he crawled from the freezer and called 911, providing information that led to the suspects’ identification and arrest. Both Melson and Peraita were charged in the case. Melson was convicted and sentenced to death; Peraita received life without parole.

Who in Gadsden remembers Tamika or the others and can share what they were like or any details about that night?