DaShayla Jones, 21, a woman from Dallas, was fatally shot just after midnight on September 7, 2025, outside Malibu Jack's, an indoor theme park off the 8600 block of Airport Freeway in North Richland Hills. Police said a fight that began inside the venue spilled into the parking lot, where gunfire erupted. Two off-duty North Richland Hills police officers working security rushed out; one returned fire while the other applied a tourniquet to a wounded 23-year-old man who survived.
DaShayla Jones was pronounced dead at the scene. Her 4-year-old son was among the children present that night, unharmed but witness to the chaos.
Investigators initially detained three 18-year-olds after the shooting; by late Sunday morning, police said two were not involved in the killing and remained in custody only on unrelated class C charges. The third, an 18-year-old from Fort Worth, was held in connection with the murder and expected to see a judge on Monday, September 8. Police also reported recovering what they believe to be the murder weapon.
Authorities later identified the suspect as 18-year-old Tychriston Reed and said he faced nine charges, including murder and reckless endangerment of a child, noting that children were present when shots were fired. Family and friends remembered DaShayla Jones as a devoted mother and nursing-home worker whose first priority was caring for her young son. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner identified her and listed the date of death as September 7, 2025; public memorial pages recorded her loss to gun violence in North Richland Hills.
