On the afternoon of Saturday, August 3, 2024, Dana C. Burks, a 49-year-old husband and father of seven including a toddler under two, was found shot and dead in the doorway of his Mount Oliver home on Amanda Avenue. First responders arrived around 12:30 p.m. and pronounced him deceased at the scene.

Police reports say the investigation quickly focused on a family member. Burks’s 21-year-old stepson, Rasheed Horne, had reportedly been in a violent domestic dispute with Burks the day before that left Horne with facial injuries treated at a hospital. Ring doorbell footage is said to show Horne at the house, leaving briefly to address a firearm malfunction before returning and firing multiple shots. An arrest warrant was issued; Horne turned himself in the next morning and was charged with criminal homicide and carrying a firearm without a license and was awaiting arraignment.

Neighbors and relatives described shock and grief; a neighbor heard two gunshots and a cousin remembered Burks as a devoted family man. If anyone knew Dana Burks or has information about the events of August 2–3 in Mount Oliver, please come forward.