On the evening of December 18, 2025, a family’s commute home at the 8th & Corinth DART station in Dallas ended in violence. Erin LaJames Graham, a 28-year-old man, was waiting at the platform with his fiancée and her three children when two young men walked past them and a brief verbal exchange escalated into a confrontation. Officers say that an 18-year-old, Demetrius Rogers, allegedly drew a firearm and shot Graham in the chest in front of the family.

Graham was taken to Methodist Hospital of Dallas and died of his injuries. Police say witnesses provided descriptions that led to Rogers’ arrest; he was booked into the Dallas County Jail and charged with murder, a first-degree felony, held without bond while the investigation continued.

What details about the encounter or the station that evening might help explain how a routine commute became deadly, and can anyone who was at 8th & Corinth on December 18 provide information?