Davion NeRay Clines, 22, was a Black/African American male from Dallas whose Saturday turned fatal on May 24, 2025. Just before evening settled over Elmwood in central Oak Cliff, officers were called to an alley off the 1900 block of Berkley Avenue. They found Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male, unconscious with a gunshot wound; Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner recorded the location as 1922 Berkley Avenue and ruled the death a homicide that afternoon.
Hours earlier, investigators say Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male, had met 22-year-old Terrance Lowe in a parking lot for a marijuana sale. According to police and arrest records described in local reporting, the deal turned into a kidnapping: Lowe allegedly forced Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male, into a Jeep Renegade, which was later discovered burned, with blood reportedly found in the rear passenger seat the same night. The narrative the detectives assembled traces a grim path from that parking lot to the quiet alley where the body of Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male, was discovered.
Within days, the Dallas Police Fugitive Unit arrested Terrance Lowe. On June 3, 2025, he was booked into the Dallas County jail and charged with murder in the killing of Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male. Police publicly identified the victim on June 4 and detailed the sequence of the alleged kidnapping and shooting. Subsequent coverage noted that a Dallas County grand jury later indicted Lowe in connection with the fatal shooting, moving the case deeper into the courts while investigators continued to piece together the events of Memorial Day weekend.
In the weeks that followed, friends and relatives mourned Davion NeRay Clines, 22, male, with obituary notices and funeral home tributes marking a life cut short. Those remembrances stand alongside police accounts that point to a robbery-kidnapping scheme ending in an alley, a burned Jeep, and an arrest that offered the first measure of accountability but not yet closure.
