Nathaniel Antwine Woods II, 23, died in the early hours of September 28, 2025, after a gunshot inside a residence on Mansion Oaks Circle in Odessa, Texas. Police were dispatched about 2:30 a.m.; he was found in a bathroom and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Investigators say witnesses reported the firearm had been in a bedroom with 22-year-old Michael Arturo Rey when it was dropped. As Rey picked it up and appeared to try to clear it, the gun discharged and the round traveled into the attached bathroom, striking Woods in the head.

Detectives arrested Michael Arturo Rey on a charge of manslaughter, a second-degree felony under Texas law; booking and news reports listed bond at $30,000 and indicate he was taken into custody without injury. Authorities described Woods’s death as the result of reckless handling and discharge of a firearm. Friends and family remembered Woods, known as Bubba, in memorial pages and obituaries; he was born in Odessa in 2002 and graduated from Permian High School in 2021.

Did anyone in the Odessa area see or hear anything that night, or have information about what happened on Mansion Oaks Circle?