Jose Melecio Martinez, 36, was found shot and pronounced dead just after 3 a.m. on May 24, 2025, along the 6200 block of East Grand Avenue by Samuell-Grand Park in East Dallas. Dallas Fire-Rescue responded but Martinez died at the location; the Dallas Police Department opened a homicide investigation under case number 073419-2025. He was pronounced dead at approximately 3:16 a.m. that morning.

Detectives identified and arrested a 23-year-old suspect, Angie Lopez, within hours; police reported she was transported to the Lew Sterrett Jail and charged with murder, with bond listed at $1,000,000. The shooting was one of several fatal shootings in Dallas that day, and investigators asked anyone with information to contact Detective Yahir Perez as they worked to establish what led to the gunfire on East Grand Avenue.

Did anyone in the Samuell-Grand Park area that predawn hour see or hear anything that could help investigators?