Peyton Edmonds, 35, was shot and killed at Dottie Jordan Neighborhood Park in Austin on the evening of July 2, 2023. Friends remember him as kind, articulate and sweet; known as Pey Pey, he’d attended LBJ High School and was described as humble, respectful and gentle-hearted.

Austin Police responded at about 6:46 p.m. and found Edmonds on the ground with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital by emergency medical services and died a short time later. Investigators say Edmonds had been in an altercation with another man, identified as 24-year-old Ricarlos Hall, and that the confrontation escalated to gunfire. Hall fled the scene and a warrant for murder was issued naming him as the primary suspect.

If anyone has information about that evening at Dottie Jordan Neighborhood Park or about Edmonds’ last movements, please share what is known.