Iliana Marie López interview

As a teenager, Iliana Marie López spent a February afternoon with friends at a San Antonio shopping mall. There the friends met another young man and invited him to join them. Iliana and most of her friends went home that evening, but one member of their group, Brandon Shanks, instead left with their new acquaintance. Several days later police found Brandon's body. The acquaintance was ultimately convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In this portion of her interview, Ms. López describes the young people's afternoon in the mall, her conversation with the young man later convicted of murder, and subsequent events as she experienced them.

At the time of this interview, Ms. López was attending the University of Texas at Austin.

Information about the interview:

Narrator: Iliana Marie López
Date of interview: July 24, 2008
Place: Residence of Iliana Marie López, Austin, Texas
Interviewer: Virginia Marie Raymond for the Texas After Violence Project
Videographer: Gabriel Daniel Solis
Also present: no one
Transcriber: Megan Eatman
Reviewer and proofreader: Gabriel Daniel Solis
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Equipment: Sony 1080i mini-HD DVcamcorder with Sennheiser external microphone
Recorded on: Sony mini-DV cassettes
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How this interview came about: In June, 2008, Iliana López was a student in an anthropology class at the University of Texas at Austin taught by Professor Shannon Speed. Dr. Speed told her class about the Texas After Violence Project and Ms. López called the project the same day, offering to tell about her experiences.
Date of donation of interview to Texas After Violence Project: February 12, 2009
Date of donor's instruction regarding web publication: June 11, 2009
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Video posted by: Sabina Eva María Hinz-Foley
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Text: Virginia Raymond
Posting date: June 19, 2009

Copyright Iliana Marie López and the Texas After Violence Project 2009. Permission for educational, non-commercial use granted provided the user fully attributes the source of the material and this website

ASA format:
López, I.M., Raymond, V.M., and Solis. (Producers). (2009). Iliana Marie López interview [Motion picture]. U.S.: Texas After Violence Project. Retrieved [Month date year YOU retrieve the interview from this website; delete these brackets from your citation], from Texas After Violence Project Web site: http://www.texasafterviolence.org/node/290

MLA format:
López, Iliana Marie. "Iliana Marie López Interview." Interview with Virginia Marie Raymond and Gabriel Daniel Solis. Texas After Violence Project, 2009. Texas After Violence Project. Ed. Virginia Marie Raymond, Gabriel Daniel Solis, and J. J. Campbell. 19 June 2009.* Texas After Violence Project. [Date YOU retrieve the video from this website; delete these brackets from your citation] http://www.texasafterviolence.org/node/290