On the night of August 5, 2023, at about 11:35 p.m., Dallas police responded to a shooting in the 2000 block of Vine Lane in the Rylie neighborhood. Officers found 36-year-old Hector Isaias Barrios Verdugo with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a local hospital and died of his injuries.

The next day, the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested 37-year-old David Santos Flores in connection with the shooting. Flores was charged with murder and booked into the Dallas County Jail with bond set at $500,000; authorities also determined he was unlawfully present in the United States at the time of his arrest.

Barrios Verdugo was born August 20, 1986, in San Marcos Catarina, Guatemala. He was preceded in death by his father, Felipe Eleno Barrios Vasquez, and a brother, Waldemar Barrios. He is survived by his wife Isolda del Carmen Guerra Muñoz, his mother Virginia Verdugo Cardona, siblings Sandra, Marcos, Maribel, Oswaldo, Carolina, Jorge, and Yanira Barrios, and other relatives and friends. The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Phillip Wheeler at 214-671-3686 or via email. Would anyone in the area remember the night of August 5 or have information about events on Vine Lane?