On May 9, 2023, at about 11:29 p.m., Austin Police responded to multiple 911 calls for gunfire near Manor Road and Rogge Lane in East Austin. Officers initially found no victim at that location, but a woman later called 911 to report her boyfriend had been shot. Police located 18-year-old Davanta Tyrell Reece on the 6200 block of Breeze Way with apparent gunshot wounds; despite life-saving efforts he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators determined Reece had been shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 5707 Manor Road. Approximately 10 to 15 people were in the parking lot when the shooting occurred; many of those individuals have been identified but the precise circumstances leading to the shooting remained unclear. Someone attempted to move Reece from the shooting site and drove him to Breeze Way, where police later found him.

Reece’s mother, Dorita, made public appeals for information in the months after the killing. Has anyone in the community seen or heard anything about the shooting that could help bring clarity to what happened that night?