Melvin Jackson Jr., 43, was fatally shot on April 4, 2025, in Houston, Texas. Officers with the Houston Police Department responded about 2:35 p.m. to reports of a shooting on Wheeler Avenue and found Jackson unresponsive in the roadway with a gunshot wound; Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Initial investigators tied the shooting to a prior argument at a nearby convenience store, but there was no clear suspect description early in the inquiry. As the investigation progressed, authorities identified 41-year-old Derrick W. Foster as the primary suspect and charged him with murder in the 482nd State District Court. Deputies from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office arrested Foster without incident on April 15, 2025, and he was booked into the Harris County Jail. Prosecutors and police have not disclosed further details about the argument or the evidence linking Foster to the shooting.

Did anyone in the Wheeler Avenue area see or hear anything on April 4 that could help clarify what led to this killing?