Blake Alcott Myers, a 34-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on the evening of March 3, 2022, in a residential area of Des Moines, Iowa. Officers and emergency personnel responded about 8:50 p.m. to the 900 block of Walker Street, a neighborhood east of downtown near the Iowa State Capitol. Medics transported Myers to Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he died of his injuries; police classified the incident as a homicide and it was Des Moines’s third homicide of 2022.

Detectives interviewed witnesses, examined evidence and followed leads but did not immediately identify a suspected gunman or a motive. Authorities later sought Brian Houston Jr. under a material-witness warrant, saying the warrant did not accuse him of killing Myers. Houston was arrested in May 2022 in a separate shooting and charged with attempted murder and unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon; reporting does not show he was charged in Myers’s death.

No other person has been publicly identified as the shooter, and no murder trial or conviction in connection with this killing has been announced. If anyone has information about what happened on Walker Street that night, please share it with investigators.