Joshua L. McMackle was 18 and a freshman at Texas Southern University when he was shot and killed shortly after 1 a.m. on April 17, 2010, near the TSU campus in Houston. The shooting erupted after an altercation between two groups at a large street party; the gunman fired about ten shots into the crowd. McMackle was struck multiple times in the back and legs as he tried to flee, collapsed in a nearby yard, and was taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Another person suffered a non-life-threatening ankle wound and was treated and released.

Friends and family described McMackle as conscientious, quiet, and diplomatic. He had lived in Belgium, Germany, and Japan while his mother worked for the government, then moved to Virginia and graduated from Randolph Macon Academy the year before enrolling at TSU to study music. Police identified a person of interest, Khiry McCullum, believed to have been in the Washington, D.C. area, and urged witnesses among the reportedly hundreds at the party to come forward. If anyone was at the party or knew Joshua, did you see or hear anything that could help investigators?