Stephen Norton, a 55-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the night of January 3, 2025, at Club Waikiki in northeast Houston. Police were called to the nightclub at 3115 Bay Street at about 11 p.m. After entering the club officers found Norton unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds; Houston Fire Department paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Prosecutors say Norton and Stephon Darial Jackson had fought outside the club earlier that night. Norton reportedly returned inside after prevailing in the fight; prosecutors allege Jackson followed him in, confronted him again and shot him in the chest. Surveillance video and multiple witnesses identified Jackson as the shooter, and Houston homicide detectives M. Castillo and A. Ledford later named him as a suspect.

Jackson was arrested on January 13 and charged with murder in the 337th State District Court; bond on that charge was initially set at $150,000, though he remained held without bond on a separate burglary-of-a-habitation matter. Court filings show Jackson had previously received deferred adjudication for that burglary and faced alleged violations, including a May 2024 DWI guilty plea.

Did anyone in the Houston area see or hear anything at Club Waikiki that night that could help clarify what happened?