Daniel Gormley, 53, was shot and killed on a DART train in Dallas after leaving a birthday gathering in Deep Ellum on the night of September 29, 2025. According to an arrest affidavit and witness accounts, a verbal confrontation between Gormley and another passenger near Market Center Station around 10 p.m. ended when shots were fired; Gormley was struck multiple times and collapsed near the rail car entrance, dying at the scene.

Officers, working from a description provided by the train operator, located and detained a 27-year-old identified as Christopher Akins shortly after the shooting; he was arrested and charged with murder. Authorities have not indicated additional suspects. Gormley was a longtime manager at Po’ Melvin’s in Irving, remembered by co-workers and customers as dependable and warm, and his death occurred amid heightened concern after a second deadly DART train shooting that week.

If anyone rode that DART train or knew Daniel, can you share what you saw or any information that could help fill in the timeline that night?