Anthony Dewayne Anderson, 32, a Black male from Dallas, was found shot on the evening of October 6, 2025, along the 4500 block of Metropolitan Avenue in South Dallas. Officers responding to a shooting call around 7:15 p.m. discovered him with gunshot wounds; he was transported to a hospital, where he died. Police said the shooter was an unknown person who fled, and homicide detectives opened an investigation into the killing.
In the days that followed, authorities named no suspects and announced no arrests. Dallas police asked the public for tips, directing information to Detective J. Reed and listing the case as #144363-2025, emphasizing that the suspect remained at large. Local coverage echoed the department's appeal, underscoring that investigators were still searching for whoever fired the shots that ended Anderson's life.
Away from the scene, notices from loved ones and funeral providers marked his passing. Obituary postings identified him as Anthony “Big Ant” Dewayne Anderson, born February 24, 1993, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and confirmed his age and home city at the time of death. Memorial pages and violence-tracking sites noted the date and place of the shooting, adding his name to the tally of Dallas lives lost to gunfire that week.
