James Lynn Marshall, 28, Black male, was found late Sunday morning, June 15, 2025, in the backyard of a home in the 3000 block of Forest Avenue in Fort Worth with gunshot wounds to his upper body. Police said the shooting followed a verbal altercation; James Lynn Marshall, 28, male, was pronounced dead at the scene as homicide detectives began their investigation.
In the days that followed, friends and former teammates remembered James Lynn Marshall, 28, male, as a standout East Texas athlete whose high school and college football years had marked him as a tireless competitor and teammate. Local coverage traced his path from Carthage High School to college football, underscoring the shock that met the news of his death in Fort Worth. An obituary confirmed his age and date of death and captured the way his family described his loyalty, warmth, and devotion.
By early July, the quiet on Forest Avenue had given way to arrests. Two of the victim's co-workers—identified in reports and jail records as Seth Michael Murray, 34, and Nicholas Alexander Grisaffi, 35—were taken into custody and booked in Tarrant County on murder charges in connection with the killing of James Lynn Marshall, 28, male. News coverage tied their arrests to the June 15 shooting, and booking logs show both men were processed on July 3, 2025.
Authorities initially described an argument that preceded the gunfire, and while the scene on Forest Avenue offered few answers that first day, the case shifted rapidly once the suspects were identified and arrested. As of those reports, police had not publicly detailed a trial timeline, leaving the death of James Lynn Marshall, 28, male, framed by the suddenness of the violence and the arrests that followed weeks later.
