On October 28, 2022, Kendrick De’Wone Williams Sr., 46, and his 21-year-old son Dewone Atrelle Williams were shot dead while sitting in Kendrick’s 2008 silver Dodge Charger at the Shamrock gas station at Corinth Street and Morrell Avenue in Dallas. They had driven there so Dewone could meet his boss to collect a paycheck and were parked by pump number 4 when a family acquaintance approached asking for a ride. The acquaintance entered the rear driver-side door, left briefly, returned and then exited through the rear passenger-side door before walking east on Morrell Avenue.

Both men were later found with gunshot wounds to the head; emergency services pronounced them dead at the scene. Surveillance footage from the gas station helped police identify a suspect, who was arrested within an hour. At trial the defendant testified the shootings were accidental, saying the gun discharged twice during a struggle; the jury convicted the defendant of capital murder and the perpetrator was sentenced to life without parole.

Kendrick was born October 8, 1976, in Henderson, Texas, worked as a chef in downtown Dallas and is survived by three children, a granddaughter and siblings. Dewone, born February 11, 2001, in Dallas, had graduated from Franklin D. Roosevelt High School and had recently started a job. Did anyone who knew Kendrick or Dewone see them at the Shamrock station that day or have information about the encounter with the acquaintance?