On the afternoon of January 5, 2017, Jaquan Dwest Brooks, a 28-year-old Black man, was found inside a vehicle parked at the Spring Ridge Apartments at 3619 Folklore Trail in Dallas, Texas, having been shot to death. Police were called shortly before 2:00 p.m.; Brooks was already dead when officers arrived. The Dallas Police Department treated the incident as a homicide and opened an investigation into who had approached or fired on the vehicle and what led to the killing.

Authorities asked the public for information and directed tips to Homicide Detective Montenegro. The case remained listed by the department among unsolved 2017 homicides, and no publicly announced arrest, charge, prosecution, or conviction connected to the killing has been recorded.

Brooks was killed in broad daylight in an apartment-complex parking area, yet the shooter’s identity and the events that precipitated the shooting remain unknown. Does anyone have information about Jaquan Brooks, his movements that day, or witnesses who were at 3619 Folklore Trail around 2:00 p.m. on January 5, 2017?