On December 27, 2023, at about 9:15 a.m., 51-year-old Morland Smith was fatally shot in the 9500 block of Scyene Road in Dallas after stopping at a shopping center to buy breakfast. Smith was talking with a 22-year-old acquaintance, Jamarcus Irving, when a red Nissan Sentra pulled up and four armed people exited and opened fire. Irving was killed at the scene; Smith was taken to a hospital and later died. Investigators say at least one assailant carried a semi-automatic rifle and that Irving appeared to be the intended target, with Smith hit as an innocent bystander.

Surveillance footage released by police shows four suspects who appear to be in their late teens or early twenties, wearing dark clothing; one wore a black and white hoodie with stars on the shoulders and lettering on the front, another was all gray. No arrests have been announced. The Dallas Police Department is treating the shooting as a capital murder case and has offered up to a $5,000 reward for information. Detective Fernando Silva can be reached at 214-608-2832 or [email protected]; anonymous tips may be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 214-373-TIPS (8477).

Did anyone see that red Nissan Sentra or the suspects near Scyene Road that morning?