Hayden Anthony Beck was 16 and a junior at Dickinson High School when he was killed on the afternoon of Sunday, August 25, 2024. A student on the Honor Roll who was taking dual credit classes at College of the Mainland, Hayden was found deceased inside a vehicle that had crashed into a driveway near Timber Drive and Green Lee Lane in Dickinson after residents heard gunshots and a loud crash at about 3:20 p.m. The medical examiner ruled his death was due to multiple gunshot wounds, not injuries from the crash.

Dickinson police executed residential search warrants at two homes and arrested two juveniles; one was 16-year-old Nehemiah Clarke. Both were initially charged with capital murder. Prosecutors and Hayden’s family remained involved in the case as it moved through the juvenile and later adult court process. Hayden’s family described the deep and lasting pain his death has caused.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything useful that afternoon on Timber Drive or Green Lee Lane?