Anthony Brown, a 26-year-old from Austin, Texas, was shot and killed on December 29, 2016. The shooting happened on the porch of a home in the 12900 block of Quinn Trail; Brown was taken to St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center and pronounced dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Investigators tied the shooting to a drug transaction. Brown was selling three ounces of marijuana to two men who came to his home when one of them, identified as Mosses Howell, shot him. Howell and another suspect, Javier Roberto Teague-Salas, were later arrested and charged with murder. The Austin Police Department traced phone records and interviewed witnesses, and witness statements plus scene evidence were used to link the suspects to the killing.

Anyone with information about the events on Quinn Trail on December 29, 2016, or who knew Anthony Brown, is asked to come forward with tips.