Edmund Lee Parker Jr was shot and killed at a Houston hotel on the evening of May 16, 2024. Police say the violence began with an exchange of gunfire between a male suspect and an unidentified person in the hotel courtyard. The suspect then moved to the parking lot and opened fire on Parker, who was found unresponsive in a hotel room and later pronounced dead from a gunshot wound.

Parker was 24, born July 1, 1999, in Houston. He graduated from Westfield High School, earned an HVAC certificate from Tulsa Welding School, and was active in his churches, New Light Christian Center and later New Jerusalem Whole Truth Church. He is survived by his father, Edmund Parker Sr., two daughters, Hailee Yvette Parker and Nami Evette Parker, siblings and extended family.

A warrant was issued for 25-year-old Ibyron Dmikkelo Faulkner in connection with the shooting. The initial unidentified person who exchanged fire in the courtyard fled and remains unidentified. Does anyone have information about the shooting, the unidentified individual, or Parker’s movements that night?