Luis Raul Sanchez was 18 when he was shot and killed in the Pleasant Grove area of Dallas in the early hours of Sunday, April 12, 2026. Police were called just before 2:30 a.m. to a business corridor in the 1900 block of South Buckner Boulevard near Bruton Road; Sanchez was found with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Dallas Police Department opened a homicide investigation. In the days after the shooting no suspects had been publicly identified and no arrests were reported; as of April 16, 2026 the case remained open. Friends and family set up an online memorial where people could light virtual candles in Sanchez’s memory.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Detective Lauren Swanson at 934-5776 or by email at [email protected]. Did anyone in the Pleasant Grove area see or hear anything that night?