Malik Deandre Sims was 19 and from Fort Worth, Texas. Family remembered him as a loving young man full of character. On the late evening of June 10, 2022, shots were fired in the 2200 block of Carverly Drive near Martin Luther King Park, two blocks north of Dunbar High School. Malik was found with gunshot wounds, taken to a local emergency room, and pronounced dead at about 9:15 p.m.; the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause as a gunshot wound to the head and neck area.

Fort Worth detectives initially searched for the person responsible without publicly identifying a suspect or motive. In August 2022 police arrested a 16-year-old, saying he had been 15 at the time of the shooting, and charged him with murder; the department declined to release the youth’s name or further details because of his age. Malik’s sister organized a fundraiser to help cover funeral costs because he did not have insurance.

Did anyone in the Fort Worth area know Malik or have information about what happened that night?