Jabari Walters was a 33-year-old musician and athlete from New Orleans whose life ended in a shooting in Mesquite, Texas, in the summer of 2022. Walters, a gifted baritone and trombone player who attended several schools including Texas College and who played wide receiver at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas, was found with a gunshot wound to his torso on the night of August 11, 2022, in the 3800 block of Anthony Drive near Town East Boulevard and U.S. Highway 80. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

A witness reported hearing up to four gunshots and seeing a dark-colored vehicle leave the scene. Police arrested 19-year-old Michelle Myahana Johnson of Mesquite on August 13, 2022, and charged her with murder. Police reports identify Johnson as Walters’ girlfriend; she told investigators she felt trapped in the relationship and admitted obtaining a handgun and arranging to meet with Walters on the night he was killed. As of August 2022, the case was moving through the legal system.

Did anyone who knew Jabari or saw activity around Anthony Drive on the night of August 11, 2022, come forward with information?