Jehu Patrick Flores, a 30-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was living in Austin in spring 2023 and was killed in an act of violence that went undiscovered for months. Around April 1, 2023, Flores was at a transient camp in the West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt behind a clothing store on South Lamar Boulevard. Witnesses say he argued with 24-year-old Melcolm Martin Lee, who allegedly shot Flores once in the back of the head.

After the shooting, Lee reportedly enlisted 47-year-old Billy John Lamar to move Flores’s body and rebury it deeper in the greenbelt. Flores’s fate remained unknown until November 27, 2023, when two witnesses told Austin police where the body was buried. Skeletal remains recovered two days later were identified by the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office with assistance from the Texas State Anthropology Department, which ruled the death a homicide.

A warrant for Melcolm Lee’s arrest was issued on December 12, 2023; he was located and taken into custody on December 20 and charged with murder. Billy John Lamar was arrested and charged with tampering with physical evidence and failure to report human remains. A felony warrant for 33-year-old Tyler Steven Lompe for tampering with human remains was announced in August 2024 and Lompe was arrested and booked in February 2025; the legal process was ongoing as of that booking. Did anyone in the West Bouldin Creek Greenbelt area see anything unusual around April 2023 that could help investigators?