Le Billie Tre Nell Hunter, a 26-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas, on the morning of January 12, 2022. At approximately 11:07 a.m., Dallas police officers were dispatched to a shooting at 8133 Barclay Street, an apartment complex in southeast Dallas. When officers arrived, they found Hunter lying on the ground in the complex parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound.
Dallas Fire-Rescue personnel responded and transported Hunter from the apartment complex to an area
hospital. Despite efforts to save him, he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Police classified the shooting as a murder investigation and turned the case over to the Dallas Police Department Homicide Unit. Early news coverage reported that officers had been called to the 8100 block of Barclay Street shortly before Hunter was taken to the hospital, but investigators released few details about what had happened immediately before the gunfire.
Investigators did not publicly establish a motive or describe the events that led to Hunter being shot. Dallas police said both the motive and circumstances surrounding the killing remained under investigation. No description of the shooter was included in the department's public announcement, and police did not identify a vehicle, weapon, or person of interest connected with the homicide. The investigation was assigned Dallas Police case number 006989-2022, with homicide Detective Tonya McDaniel listed as the investigator seeking information from the public.
Police appealed for witnesses or anyone with knowledge of the shooting to come forward. Crime Stoppers also offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the felony case. The public request for information reflected how little investigators were prepared to disclose about the circumstances of the shooting in its immediate aftermath.
Publicly available police and news records located for the case do not identify a suspect or report an arrest connected with Hunter's killing. No subsequent announcement was located naming anyone as having been charged with his murder, and no publicly reported trial or conviction tied to the January 12, 2022 shooting was found. As a result, the available record continues to leave unanswered who shot Hunter, what prompted the confrontation, and whether investigators have since developed a suspect who has not been publicly identified.
