Curtis Kador Sr., a 63-year-old man from Marshall, Texas, was shot and killed on November 23, 2021. The shooting happened around 11:30 a.m. at the intersection of Cross Street and Circle Drive; Kador was one of three people hit and was pronounced dead at the scene by Marshall Fire and EMS. The two other victims were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Marshall Police Department detained a suspect at the scene identified as Stoney Deshun Irving, who was arrested and charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with Kador’s death. Kador was a retired supervisor for the City of Marshall and had lived in the area since attending Wiley College on a basketball scholarship in 1976. He is survived by his mother, Nellie Joan Kador, his sons Curtis Kador Jr. and Christopher Kador Sr., and other family members; funeral services were held at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Baton Rouge with Masonic and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity rites.

What information can anyone share about that morning at Cross Street and Circle Drive or about Curtis’s life in Marshall?