Just after 3 a.m. on August 30, 2025, Dallas police were called to the 2400 block of 52nd Street in the Cedar Crest area of East Oak Cliff and found 21-year-old Dortae Jarmal Ross lying mortally wounded from a gunshot.

Detectives secured the block as a homicide scene and opened case number 124823-2025. Investigators processed scattered shell casings and reviewed emergency radio traffic and witness activity as they worked to reconstruct a timeline from the early-morning shooting. By the days afterward authorities had not announced a suspect, motive, or any arrests.

Anyone with information about the killing of Dortae Jarmal Ross is asked to contact Detective J. Ortiz-Vives at 214-671-4310 or by email; did anyone in Cedar Crest see or hear anything around 3 a.m. on August 30?