Anthony Craig Galentine, a 60-year-old from Houston, Texas, died on May 6, 2022, in a fatal shootout at a game room at 4934 Laura Koppe Road in northeast Houston. According to the preliminary investigation, Anthony and another man, 40-year-old Joshay Craig Baldwin, had argued at a different location earlier that day, then encountered one another at the game room. After a verbal exchange both men drew firearms and were each fatally shot.

Anthony was found unresponsive in the driver’s side of a white Mercedes Benz in the parking lot; Joshay was found on the floor inside the business. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. No arrests had been announced and the Houston Police Department Homicide Division continued to investigate.

Anthony was born January 11, 1962, the seventh of eight children to Wilfred and Theresa Benjamin Galentine. He worked for the United States Postal Service and is survived by his wife, Halcyon Sutton, daughters Mahoganye and Ashley Sutton, son Anthony Sutton, siblings and other relatives; services were held at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church with burial at Brookside Memorial Park Cemetery.

If anyone has information about the events leading to the shootout, please contact the HPD Homicide Division.