Wesley Lane Keene, 55, was shot and killed on July 4, 2015, while working as a security guard at KLAD Manufacturing in Houston, Texas. Born May 28, 1960, in San Antonio, he graduated from Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena and later earned a degree from the University of Houston. Keene was found in the company parking lot by a friend who had gone to check on him after receiving an inaudible voice message.

The Houston Police Department initially reported no known motive or suspects, and the killing remained unsolved for several years, leaving his family — parents Floyd and Barbara Keene, brother Jason, and sons Jordan, Justin, and Jacob — seeking answers. In August 2021 the HPD Homicide Cold Case Unit arrested Tyderrian Deleon Duffield, 27, and charged him with capital murder in connection with Keene’s death; Duffield had been identified as a suspect in a string of overnight commercial warehouse burglaries around the state at the time of the killing.