Mackenzie Christopher Chastang was a 29-year-old White man and a father living in Abilene, Texas, when he was shot dead on the morning of October 14, 2023. Police responded about 7 a.m. to an apartment complex on Buffalo Gap Road and found Chastang inside an apartment with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Court documents describe a tense situation involving the apartment’s resident, Amanda Poleski, and two men who had been in separate on-and-off relationships with her: Chastang and Matthew Steven Haynes. Chastang had left to let Haynes collect belongings but returned and became upset to find Haynes still inside. Poleski said Haynes warned he was going to shoot Chastang, and she heard two shots seconds apart after Chastang walked toward the bedroom; she said Chastang was unarmed. Both men exited the bedroom and Haynes was later found near the scene and admitted to officers that he had shot Chastang. Haynes was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Are there people who knew Mackenzie or who were at the Buffalo Gap Road apartment that morning who can share what they saw or heard?