Joshua Porter was an 18-year-old Black male from Dallas, Texas. On the night of January 25, 2024, at about 9:15 p.m., Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 1000 block of W. Wheatland Road in the Red Bird neighborhood and found Joshua inside his vehicle with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police identified four individuals in connection with the shooting and made a series of arrests over the following weeks. By early March 2024, authorities had taken four men into custody and charged them with capital murder in relation to Joshua Porter’s death. No other details about motive or the exact sequence of events leading to the shooting were provided.

If anyone in Red Bird that night saw Joshua’s vehicle, the incident, or has information about what happened, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.