Joseph Thompson, 27, was shot and killed on March 23, 2025, at about 11 p.m. in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 10950 Tanner Park Court in Houston. Officers found Thompson unresponsive with a gunshot wound; Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced him deceased.

A preliminary investigation says Thompson had a verbal altercation with an unidentified suspect before the shooting. Witnesses reported the suspect fled northbound across the complex. The suspect has not been identified or apprehended and the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division is asking anyone with information to come forward or leave anonymous tips with Crime Stoppers.

Thompson graduated from J. Frank Dobie High School in 2016 and completed HVAC training at Gary Job Corps in 2019. He worked alongside his father at AMACS and is remembered by family and colleagues as kind and selfless.

If anyone saw the incident near Tanner Park Court on March 23 or knows who fled the scene, can you share what you know with investigators?