Ibrahim Malik Suarez, a 37-year-old Black man from San Antonio, Texas, was shot and killed on April 9, 2021, after an argument at a gas station in Converse, Texas. The confrontation began inside a Circle K and continued at the gas pumps and later at a traffic light. Surveillance video shown at trial captured Suarez approaching a car occupied by 36-year-old Christopher Lee Powell before Powell rolled down his window and shot Suarez three times, twice in the chest and once in the ear. Suarez was unarmed and died after being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center.

Powell, a Texas Army veteran, called 911 after the shooting and used a racial slur while claiming self-defense. His attorneys argued he suffered from PTSD from service in Afghanistan; prosecutors maintained there was no evidence Suarez intended to harm Powell. A Bexar County jury convicted Powell of murder, and on February 7, 2024, Judge Frank J. Castro sentenced him to 40 years with parole eligibility after 20 years. Does anyone have additional information about Suarez’s life or the events at the gas station?