Tyrone Sedric Darling Jr was 30 when he was shot and killed outside Lisa’s Chicken restaurant in Arlington, Texas, on December 12, 2022. He was reportedly walking with a baby in a stroller when two women approached; a fight followed and Tyrone was shot multiple times by the mother of his child. Medical personnel arrived but he succumbed at the scene.

Born January 19, 1992, in San Antonio, Tyrone moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area with his family and earned a full-ride football scholarship to the University of El Paso. He was a father of four and remembered for his smile, sense of humor and talent for freestyle rapping. The police have opened a murder investigation and the mother of his child has been identified as a suspect and charged with murder. The investigation is ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened outside Lisa’s Chicken that day, please contact Arlington police.