On January 3, 2024, at about 2:30 p.m., Dallas Police responded to a shooting in the 8800 block of Arbor Park Drive near Royal Lane in the Lake Highlands area. Officers found 29-year-old Richard Charles Pinkney III lying on the sidewalk at the entrance to a trailhead with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

Detectives canvassed the neighborhood and the department’s Air One helicopter searched the nearby creek for more than an hour, but no suspect or suspects had been identified. As of January 4, 2024, no arrests were reported and the case was assigned number 001454-2024. Pinkney was born January 20, 1994, in Kansas City, Missouri, was a Certified Nursing Assistant who graduated from North Texas Job Corps, and is survived by his daughter Royalty Pinkney, his mother, siblings and extended family.

Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to contact Detective John Valdez at 214-671-3623 or [email protected]. Did anyone in the Lake Highlands area see activity near the trailhead that afternoon?