On the evening of July 9, 2024, at about 7:10 p.m., Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 4500 block of Silver Springs Circle in West Oak Cliff and found 25-year-old Maikal Izaipe outside a residence with apparent gunshot wounds. Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced Izaipe dead at the scene.

Preliminary investigation states Izaipe had been in a physical altercation with 25-year-old Naudy Hernandez Perez, an individual known to him, and that Hernandez Perez allegedly produced a firearm and shot Izaipe. An arrest warrant for murder was issued for Hernandez Perez.

On July 12, 2024, Hernandez Perez was arrested in Medina County after deputies said they spotted his vehicle on Interstate 35 near Devine. He reportedly drove into the median, fled on foot into brush, and was taken into custody without further incident; he was booked on murder and evading arrest and is expected to be transferred to Dallas County. The investigation is ongoing.

If anyone has information about Maikal Izaipe, the events that evening, or what led to the altercation, please share what is known.