On April 6, 2022, 24-year-old Juan Battice Ruffin was shot to death inside his Timber Ridge Apartments home in northeast Houston at about 2:15 a.m. Ruffin’s girlfriend and their two-year-old child were asleep in the next room; the girlfriend was awakened by gunfire and found Ruffin with multiple gunshot wounds. She called police and later cooperated with investigators.

Investigators say a masked intruder, described as a Black male wearing a ski mask, confronted the girlfriend before fleeing on foot. Officers found narcotics and money at the scene, but it is unclear whether those items were connected to the shooting. The Houston Police Department Homicide Division is investigating and the suspect remains at large.

Did anyone in the Timber Ridge Apartments area that night see a man in a ski mask or notice suspicious activity?