On the night of May 31, 2025, 34-year-old Awal Kistan stepped outside his apartment at The Fredd Townhomes on Dartbrook Drive near Fredericksburg Road after receiving a phone call. Within moments, shots rang out. Officers arriving around 11 p.m. found him on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide by multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators later traced a digital trail leading to a former coworker who had publicly aired a grievance about money. By late August, police arrested 23-year-old Naqibullah Habibzoi of Houston and charged him with murder in the killing of Awal Noor Kiftan, an alternative rendering of the victim’s name that appears in court and media records. Detectives linked Habibzoi to the crime with TikTok posts accusing the victim of taking $31,000 and vowing revenge, call records, vehicle location and license plate reader hits showing travel from Houston to San Antonio on the day of the shooting, and a recorded Pashto-language phone call in which the suspect allegedly admitted he finished the victim. A witness told detectives the victim went outside after being asked to meet a woman; investigators were examining her possible role.

If anyone knew Awal Kistan, his movements that night, or has information about the woman who reportedly lured him outside, please come forward.