Wayne Schubert was a 16-year-old White male from Houston whose life ended in a gunshot killing during a violent stretch of mid-1980s crime in the area. One online memorial gives the date as September 9, 1985; other accounts place his death around the same period linked to a later, widely reported homicide.

Schubert’s killing is often mentioned as an earlier, less-detailed incident in the series of attacks that culminated in the brutal death of 19-year-old Dennis Keith Medler. Reporting tied Smith and several teenagers who spoke about Satanism to that case; Smith was later convicted of first-degree murder on August 13, 1986, and received a life sentence and a $10,000 fine.

If anyone knew Wayne Schubert or has information about the circumstances of his death, please share what is known.