On the evening of September 21, 2025, Elijah McIntyre, 18, male, was struck down by gunfire in a burst of violence that rattled a quiet stretch near North 9th Street and Bosque Boulevard in Waco. Officers rushed to the scene after calls of shots fired around 8:30 p.m. and found two teenagers wounded; both were taken to a hospital, where Elijah McIntyre, 18, could not be saved while a 19-year-old survived.
The shooting unfolded near Dewey Park, turning a late-September Sunday into a night of sirens, floodlights, and questions that lingered long after the street fell silent again.
By the next day, police publicly identified Elijah McIntyre, 18, as the victim and called the case an isolated incident, a phrase that underscored how targeted it seemed even as it offered little comfort. Detectives said they were searching for a suspect but announced no arrests, urging patience while they pieced together witness accounts and canvassed the area for clues. The killing marked Waco’s eighth homicide investigation of 2025, a stark statistic that framed the loss of a young life just as the community began to mourn.
In the days that followed, online memorials recorded Elijah McIntyre, 18, as lost to gun violence in Waco on September 21, a simple line that carries the weight of a family’s grief and the city’s resolve to find answers. Yet the official picture has remained unchanged: investigators still seeking the person responsible, still asking anyone who was nearby that night to come forward, and still working to turn a chaotic burst of gunfire into a clear case that can be carried into a courtroom. As of the most recent updates, no arrests have been reported and no suspect description has been publicly released.
