Kafo Setaleki Tuha, 30, a male from Euless, Texas, left his home on the night of August 31 and joined friends at Marina’s Restaurant and Bar on West Euless Boulevard. In the first hours of Labor Day, just after closing time around 2 a.m. on September 1, 2025, a parking-lot argument erupted among multiple people from several different groups. As the confrontation spilled across the asphalt, gunfire broke the humid night.
Responding officers found Kafo Setaleki Tuha suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; he was rushed to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Two other adults were wounded in the melee. The shooter fled before officers could secure the scene.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Kafo Setaleki Tuha, 30. By morning and through the day, word spread quickly that the man killed was a father of five, a former L.D. Bell High School football captain who later played defensive tackle for Houston Christian University. Friends and former coaches remembered his steadiness and faith, while his family gathered themselves around the abruptness of the loss. An online fundraiser organized by relatives described a devoted husband and dad whose “greatest joy in life was his family.” An obituary posted later that week confirmed his age and the September 1, 2025 date of death.
Detectives began reconstructing the night from surveillance angles and witness recollections, tracing the splintered argument that escalated into shots. Five days after the killing, Euless police announced that a suspect had been taken into custody with assistance from the Fort Worth Police Department. The department did not release the suspect’s name at that time and said further details would follow when the homicide investigation was complete. The arrest marked the first public turn toward accountability in a case that had shaken a community already grieving.
By the end of that week, candles and comments appeared online in remembrance of Kafo Setaleki Tuha, 30, as friends and strangers alike lit digital vigils and shared fragments of a life tethered to family, work, and faith. News reports reiterated the setting and sequence — a late-night fight, multiple groups, a shooter slipping into the dark — while the family’s words filled in the quiet spaces left behind. The outlines of the crime were stark; the portrait of the man was generous. Both now travel together whenever his name is spoken.
