On October 12, 2023, at about 12:30 p.m. Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 1000 block of Cheyenne Road in the Pleasant Grove area. Officers found 21-year-old Desmond Valentine with critical gunshot wounds and he was taken to a local hospital. Initial investigation identified 18-year-old Jeremy Walker as the shooter; Walker was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Desmond Valentine died of his injuries on October 16, 2023, and the charges against Walker were subsequently upgraded to murder. The Dallas Police Department’s Homicide Unit is handling the ongoing investigation. Valentine was a loving father to his son, Carter; he graduated from DeSoto High School in May 2021 and completed certification at Texas Barber College in September 2023.

Does anyone in Pleasant Grove or the DeSoto area have information about the shooting or remembered Desmond that could help the investigation?