On the evening of January 24, 2024, at about 9:00 PM, Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 8500 block of Old Hickory Trail. Officers found 18-year-old Larry Devonte Blair suffering from a gunshot wound; Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene. Preliminary information says Blair had been in an argument with an unidentified person who produced a firearm and shot him.

The Dallas Police Department opened a homicide investigation and asked the community for information. Subsequent investigative efforts resulted in identification and arrest of a suspect; the case was marked cleared by arrest on the department’s NIBRS list. An obituary from Golden Gate Funeral Home records Blair’s birth as February 3, 2005, and his death as January 24, 2024, and notes funeral services were arranged.

If anyone has information about the shooting on Old Hickory Trail that could assist the investigation, please come forward.