Devon King was 20 and from Corpus Christi when he was killed in a mass shooting outside a San Antonio nightclub in the early morning of May 18, 2023. Family described him as the life of the party with a contagious big cheesy smile; he was just days shy of his 21st birthday when the violence occurred.

According to police, a large fight involving about 20 people began inside the Privat Social Club on UTSA Boulevard and spilled into the parking lot, where multiple people from one group drew handguns and opened fire. Devon was struck once in the chest, taken to a hospital, and died of his wound; three others were also shot and survived.

San Antonio police identified two suspects. Noah James Patterson was arrested May 30, 2023, and charged with murder and aggravated assault. Seth Terrance Rockett was later named as another shooter and became a fugitive before his apprehension. What details about motive, the sequence of shots, or who fired the fatal round remain unresolved in the reports — does anyone have direct information about what happened that night or knew Devon?