Armando Ventura, 31, was found shot multiple times inside a vehicle just before dawn on June 25, 2025, after gunfire erupted in the 2400 block of Avenue E (Postoffice Street) in Galveston. Officers responding around 2:50 a.m. pronounced Ventura dead at the scene. Two other men were wounded in the same sequence of events: a 29-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds was found near 25th Street and Avenue G and later taken to a hospital, and a 25-year-old man with injuries not caused by gunfire was located on Avenue H and also hospitalized.

Investigators reported the deadly exchange spanned a few blocks of the downtown grid, with the initial barrage on Avenue E and the wounded man discovered near 25th and Avenue G. By the following day, police announced the arrest of 25-year-old Johnathan Lee of Galveston, who was booked on charges of murder and aggravated assault and held on a total bond of $1,000,000.

Did anyone witness the predawn shooting or see those involved in the downtown area that morning?