Skylar Ashton Marquel Linson was a 17-year-old senior at Lewisville High School and an aspiring musician who made rap videos. Classmates remembered him as genuine, sweet, outgoing and funny, someone who cared about everyone but himself.

On the afternoon of September 20, 2023, just after classes ended, Skylar was in the parking lot of a Raising Cane’s on West Main Street. Around 4:10 p.m. he got out of his car and began walking toward the restaurant when a different car pulled up, a person got out and fired multiple times, striking him. Skylar was taken to Medical City Lewisville and died of multiple gunshot wounds.

A witness followed the fleeing vehicle while on the phone with 911 and relayed its location to police. After a brief chase the driver was apprehended in Carrollton about eight miles away and surrendered. Prosecutors later said the attack was targeted and retaliatory, allegedly linked to an earlier murder and months-long online arguments; the suspect was identified as 16-year-old Siang Leng Thang from Flower Mound, who was not a Lewisville High student.

Did anyone in the Lewisville area know Skylar, or did anyone see him at the Raising Cane’s that afternoon?