On April 13, 2023, 16-year-old Javarius LaQuan Davidson was shot in the 5800 block of Highland Hills Drive in Dallas at about 8:15 p.m. Police found Davidson with a gunshot wound and two other uninjured teenage boys; he was taken to a hospital and later died. Investigators say Davidson and the two other teens had been involved in an argument earlier that evening, and that while they were walking in the street after the dispute an unknown assailant fired, striking Davidson. A neighbor, Frederick Johnson, said he urged Davidson to go inside but Davidson’s mother asked him to retrieve his sister, and the shooting occurred at that moment.

On July 18, 2023, Dallas police arrested a 16-year-old male on a murder charge in connection with the shooting; his identity has not been released because he is a juvenile and he is in custody. Family and friends remember Davidson as kind and funny.

If anyone has information about the incident or remembers seeing anything in the Highland Hills Drive area that night, please come forward.