On June 19, 2025, just before 1 p.m., 24-year-old Lamar Wright, a male from Arlington, was found unresponsive with a gunshot wound inside an apartment in the 1600 block of Nandina Drive. First responders rushed the 24-year-old to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses told officers they saw another man flee the unit and enter a nearby apartment moments after the gunfire.
When police followed, they found a 25-year-old with a gunshot wound to the leg—injured but alive—and detained him as the investigation quickly gathered momentum. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office later released the victim’s identity publicly as Lamar Wright, age 24.
Detectives pieced together a picture of a meeting that, according to their early findings, had devolved into a robbery attempt during “high-risk drug activity.” The wounded man, identified by police as Kamari Marzittie, initially gave a false name and was booked on failure to identify and outstanding warrants before investigators charged him with capital murder in the death of 24-year-old Lamar Wright. In the days that followed, detectives determined that a second participant, 23-year-old Kewoine Cattenhead, had gone to the apartment with Marzittie to commit the robbery; Cattenhead was also arrested and charged with capital murder.
The arrests closed the immediate loop of the case: two suspects in custody on capital murder charges tied to the killing of 24-year-old Lamar Wright, a male whose life ended inside that Nandina Drive apartment on a hot Thursday in Arlington. Public police records for 2025 list the homicide under Report #2025-01700362 and mark it “Cleared by Arrest,” reflecting the filing of charges against Marzittie and Cattenhead. News accounts from that week mirror the department’s timeline—officers dispatched at 12:58 p.m., the discovery of 24-year-old Lamar Wright gravely wounded, and the rapid shift from rescue to a capital murder investigation centered on a robbery during a drug-related encounter.
Friends, family, and strangers would later find the victim’s name—Lamar Wright, age 24—listed among those lost to gun violence on June 19, 2025, in Arlington, Texas, a stark entry that captured only the barest facts behind a case that detectives say began as a meeting and ended in a deadly betrayal. By that point, both the 25-year-old and the 23-year-old identified by police as suspects had been taken into custody and charged, their names now bound to the final hours of 24-year-old Lamar Wright, a male whose death the city recorded, investigated, and—through arrests—moved from unanswered chaos toward the long, slower course of the courts.
