On the evening of July 17, 2024, 23-year-old Charles Dennis III was shot and later died at a hospital after being found outside the Roseland Townhomes area of Old East Dallas. The shooting happened around 10:48 p.m. on the 3500 block of Munger Avenue while numerous bullets struck vehicles and residences nearby. Neighbors reported a chaotic scene; one said her car was hit and another described bullet holes in her home.

Dennis had recently moved to Dallas from Louisiana and was walking back to his Hall Street Flats apartment after buying snacks when investigators believe he was an unintended victim caught in crossfire of a shootout near the Roseland Homes Housing Community. He graduated magna cum laude from Southern University and was pursuing a master’s degree at Texas Wesleyan University. His parents, Charles Jr. and Meeka Dennis, traveled from Louisiana and are asking anyone with information to come forward.

What can readers who were in Old East Dallas that night add to the investigation?