Marquis Elijah Demps, 21, of Harker Heights, Texas, was shot and killed on the night of December 3, 2018, in the 400 block of Root Avenue in Killeen. Reports say he was in his black Nissan around 8:55 p.m. when multiple assailants attacked him; he was found in the car with multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene.

Three people were charged in connection with the killing: Talitha Marieanne Collins, Justice Dinell Jamar Brue-Miller, and Derek Gregory Spragins. Collins later admitted she set up Marquis for a robbery, saying she distracted him while Brue-Miller and Spragins robbed him, dropped those two off before meeting Marquis, and sat in his passenger seat while the shooting occurred. A silver vehicle the suspects used was recovered and linked to the crime.

Marquis’s family and friends held funeral services on December 15, 2018, at the Church of the Deliverance in Killeen. Does anyone have information about that night or the people involved that could shed more light on what happened?