On March 14, 2020, 23-year-old Army Specialist Freddy Beningo Delacruz Jr. was one of three people found dead in an unlocked apartment at the Summerlyn Apartments in Killeen, Texas. Delacruz, a Filipino-American stationed at Fort Hood, was discovered with Army veteran Shaquan Markell Allred, 23, and Delacruz’s 22-year-old pregnant girlfriend, Asia Cline, after officers returned to the complex following an earlier call about a water leak; an earlier response for reported gunshots had turned up no evidence.

Investigators identified 23-year-old Army veteran Barnard Lnell Morrow as the person accused of killing the three victims. Morrow was arrested in August 2020 in Newton, Mississippi, and later held in Bell County. Delacruz’s mother, Latrece Johnson, attended the proceedings and said she had spoken with Morrow by phone while talking to her son; she has said the trial evidence helped explain what and how her son died, though not why.

Anyone who knew Freddy, his movements around Killeen or Fort Hood in March 2020, or who has additional information about the case is asked to come forward.