Just after midnight on June 20, 2025, 19-year-old David Stribling was shot on the 2600 block of Main Street in Dallas’ Deep Ellum entertainment district. Dallas police arrived around 12:40 a.m. to find the young man wounded; Dallas Fire-Rescue rushed him to a hospital, where he died a short time later. The case was opened under DPD case number 087471-2025 and detectives asked anyone with information to come forward.
According to early accounts from the scene, an altercation on Main Street preceded the gunfire. Surveillance video reviewed by investigators showed a fight involving roughly five or six people spilling into the street before shots were fired. Officers responding described finding a critically injured 19-year-old male who was later identified as David Stribling; he did not survive his injuries at the hospital.
Neighbors and patrons in Deep Ellum awoke to boarded storefront windows and police tape as the sun rose, a stark reminder that the shooting occurred in one of the city’s busiest nightlife corridors. Police confirmed the location and time of the killing and publicly identified the victim as 19-year-old David Stribling. In the days that followed, authorities reiterated appeals for witnesses as safety concerns resurfaced in the district.
Public records and memorial listings later marked the date of death for David Stribling as June 20, 2025, with incident summaries noting the Deep Ellum block where he was shot. An online obituary identified him as David Gregory Stribling Jr., born in 2006, with funeral services announced for late June and mid-July.
As of the latest contemporaneous reports in late June 2025, Dallas police had not announced an arrest in connection with the killing of 19-year-old male David Stribling. Investigators continued to seek tips from the public, providing a detective’s contact information while indicating that the investigation remained ongoing.
