On October 23, 2016, 25-year-old Phillip Michael Evans was shot and beaten to death outside his home on Buffalo Springs Drive in Fort Worth, Texas. Evans and his friend Daniel Haros had just returned from a neighbor’s Halloween party where they’d spoken briefly with attendees, including 35-year-old Cary Heath, a middle school science teacher and Air Force veteran.

According to reports, Heath allegedly left the party, retrieved a rifle, then approached Evans and Haros in their front yard and opened fire. Both men died of multiple gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma. After the shootings Heath is said to have returned to the party, handed his infant to another attendee, and told his wife he had killed two people. Heath was arrested the next day at the middle school where he taught; his wife Tiffany Heath was later charged with tampering with evidence for allegedly helping clean up blood and hide the rifle.

In September 2019 a Tarrant County jury convicted Cary Heath of capital murder and sentenced him to life without parole. The motive for the attack was never established during the trial. Does anyone have information about Phillip Evans’ life in Fort Worth or the night of October 23, 2016?