On the night of August 4, 2026, 21-year-old Jose Hernandez was shot during an altercation with another driver in a parking lot at Singleton Boulevard and North Hampton Road in West Dallas. After shots were fired, both vehicles fled; Hernandez, apparently wounded, drove about a mile before his truck left the road and went into Fishtrap Lake near Interstate 30 and Hampton Road. Multiple 911 calls around 11:30 p.m. reported a submerged vehicle.

Dallas police officers entered the water and, after reaching the truck, emergency crews found Hernandez had sustained a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Two days later, on August 6, 2026, 21-year-old Jacob Sherif was arrested and booked into the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge in connection with Hernandez’s death. The investigation is ongoing.

Did anyone in the area witness the parking-lot confrontation or the vehicles leaving the scene?