Savannah Rodriguez was 19 when she was fatally shot at her family’s apartment in South Dallas on September 25, 2023. The shooting occurred about 2 p.m. after a man knocked on the apartment door on Lyons and Elsie Faye Heggins Street; as Savannah moved to answer, the assailant fired multiple shots through the door. Savannah died at the scene; her grandmother, Minerva Arredondo, and Savannah’s boyfriend, Christopher Morales, were also struck and hospitalized and were expected to recover.

The suspect was identified as 27-year-old Jeremiah Moore, who fled and later shot and wounded a man at a nearby car wash before being arrested over 250 miles away in Donley County, Texas. Moore faces charges including one count of murder and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Witnesses said he had been acting erratically and making threats about people he believed were messing with his wife, but the exact motive for the attack on Savannah and the others remains unclear. Family members say they did not know Moore and remember Savannah as a kind, recently graduated Lincoln High School student who wanted to pursue photography.

If anyone knew Savannah or has information about that afternoon at the apartment or the car wash, please share what you know.