Demonta Jaquis Brown, 32, was shot during the early hours of October 9, 2025, in Tyler, Texas. Police were called about 2:24 a.m. to a home in the 1800 block of North Grand Avenue, where Brown was found with gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital; he died of his injuries. A woman at the scene was also shot multiple times and survived; investigators said she was someone with whom the shooter had, or previously had, a relationship.

Police tied the violence to a confrontation over an alleged purse theft that escalated into gunfire. By the morning of October 9, Tyler police had identified and arrested 35-year-old Kendrick Dawone Ross of Tyler. He was charged with murder in Brown’s death and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the woman’s injuries; bonds were set at a combined $1.5 million and he was booked into the Smith County Jail. Arrest documents show the accused claimed self-defense, while detectives wrote that Brown never physically touched him before shots were fired.

Family and friends remembered Brown by his given name and the nickname Mack Gee in funeral notices and online memorials. Did anyone in the North Grand Avenue area see or hear anything that night that could help clarify what happened?