On July 6, 2024, Dallas police found 49-year-old Sonya Faith Warren dead in her Llano Avenue home in the Lakewood Heights section of Old East Dallas from a gunshot wound to the head. Officers noted Warren’s doorbell camera had been forcibly removed from its mounting before they entered the residence.

Investigators established that 41-year-old Jeffrey Hinton had rented part of Warren’s home until about a month before the killing. Witnesses placed Hinton at the house on July 5; one said he removed the doorbell camera and surveillance shows a blue Hyundai Elantra in the driveway around the time two gunshots were heard. Hinton told police he was there only ten minutes, but cell phone records put him at the scene for roughly forty minutes. A warrant was issued and Hinton was arrested on July 26 in Plano and charged with murder; he is being held on $500,000 bond.

The motive has not been established and investigators continue to develop the case. If anyone knew Sonya or saw activity at her Llano Avenue home around July 5–6, please share information with authorities.