Lewis Lane, a 20-year-old African American man, was shot and killed in South Austin on April 24, 2015, at about 4 a.m. He was found in the 7300 block of Gaines Mill Lane, near Manchaca Road and William Cannon Drive. Emergency personnel took him to University Medical Center Brackenridge, where he died of his wounds at 5:09 a.m. Investigators reported Lane was discovered in a part of town he would not normally visit and that no witnesses to the shooting were initially located, only people who heard gunshots.

Lane’s mother, Chantel Session, described her family’s shock and grief and said they believed he had been trying to turn his life around for his daughter despite prior convictions for theft and criminal trespass. Police later focused on Jamal Boyd, also known as Prince Apollo, who was identified in March 2017 as the suspect; he was already in custody on an unrelated aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge. Court documents allege Lane had robbed people of illegal narcotics and had previously robbed Boyd, and that Lane and a friend went to Boyd’s home that night to buy marijuana before an altercation in the car ended with Lane being shot.

The case has been described as challenged by witness credibility issues as investigators pursued leads and evidence.