On October 3, 2023, at about 11:54 p.m., 20-year-old Rickye Bernard Henderson Jr. was found unresponsive inside a vehicle at 1101 Cumberland Road in South Austin with an apparent gunshot wound. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Witnesses at the scene identified 20-year-old Willie Jones as the person who produced a black handgun and shot Henderson; one witness said they wrestled the firearm away from Jones before fleeing. Jones was apprehended as he tried to leave and was later charged with first-degree murder and booked into the Travis County Jail with bonds set at over $1 million.

The slaying was listed as Austin’s 50th homicide of 2023. Henderson’s family remembered him for his infectious smile and gentle spirit; he graduated from Lyndon B. Johnson High School in May 2021 and enjoyed sports and weightlifting.

Has anyone in South Austin seen or heard anything that could help investigators?