Mark Anthony Harper, 36, was fatally shot during a visit to a Pflugerville home on December 19, 2025. Deputies from the Travis County Sheriff’s Office answered a call just after 2:30 a.m. to a house in the 2500 block of Forgetmenot Lane and found Harper on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to his head; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Harper was born in San Antonio, graduated from Pflugerville High School’s class of 2007, and worked for the City of Austin as a wastewater specialist. He is survived by three children, De’Andre, Xena, and Princess Harper. The resident of the home, 36-year-old Joseph Javier Muniz, called deputies and later told law enforcement and his father that Harper had attempted to choke him and his son, prompting Muniz to shoot. Investigators recovered two fired 9mm cartridge cases and a bloody Glock 9mm handgun at the scene; Muniz was arrested and charged with Harper’s murder and booked into the Travis County Jail.

What did readers in Pflugerville notice the night of December 19 that might help clarify what happened?