Dionysius Edward Thompson was 20 when he was fatally shot in downtown Austin in the early hours of August 6, 2022. He was found unresponsive on the 500 block of East Seventh Street with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after. Thompson was born December 28, 2001, and his death deeply affected his family and community.

An arrest was made roughly an hour after the shooting; the person taken into custody was 18-year-old Nathan Ramirez. Initial charges included possession of a controlled substance and unlawful carrying of a weapon. The Austin Police Department listed this as the city’s 46th homicide of 2022. Few other publicly reported details about motive or circumstances at the scene have been provided.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about that early-morning incident on East Seventh Street, please share what you know with investigators.