Ivan Reed, a 20-year-old Black man from Lubbock, Texas, was shot late on Christmas night, December 25, 2022. Loved ones described him as loving, caring, determined, and fearless; he had been working at a local Wendy’s. Police were called about shots fired to the 2100 block of East 4th Street at about 11:39 p.m. and found Reed with a serious gunshot wound. He was taken to University Medical Center and pronounced dead at 1:11 a.m. the next morning.

Lubbock Police Department’s Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit investigated and said an altercation occurred just before Reed was shot; further details were not released. Investigators identified 16-year-old Jamaree Shepherd as a suspect, wanted for murder and described as armed and dangerous. Shepherd was located and taken into custody on the afternoon of December 28, 2022, and was charged with murder. The case entered the court system and remains in litigation.

Did anyone in Lubbock see or hear anything that night on East 4th Street that could help fill in what happened leading up to the shooting?