Miguel Michael Vasquez, a 37-year-old Hispanic man, was killed on April 4, 2021, in Houston after an attempted robbery outside Dave and Buster’s at the Marq-E Entertainment Center. Vasquez was leaving the venue with his 10-year-old daughter when a 23-year-old man, identified as Nicholas Thomas, approached, demanded Vasquez’s watch, placed him in a chokehold and then shot him. Vasquez ran to off-duty officers who were working security but later died at a hospital; his daughter was not harmed.

Investigators used surveillance video from the entertainment center and a shell casing recovered in the parking lot to identify Thomas as the suspect. Four days after the killing, Thomas’s 3-year-old son was accidentally shot with the same gun, and ballistic comparison linked that bullet to the casing from the Vasquez scene. Additional evidence cited includes a vehicle seen on video that matched one registered to Thomas’s girlfriend’s mother, Thomas’s DNA on Vasquez’s watch, fingerprints on Vasquez’s car and phone records placing Thomas in the area.

Vasquez is remembered by family as a hard worker and provider who left behind a wife and two children. Does anyone have information about Vasquez, his routine at the Marq-E center that night, or unreported details that could help clarify what happened?