Darryl Banks

Darryl Banks, a 55-year-old Black man, was out on the southeast side of Houston in the early hours of April 21, 2015, walking along Red Bud when two people approached him and a dispute broke out. In the chaos that followed, gunfire erupted, and the pair ran off into the darkness.

Hours later, neighbors’ calls and police response drew attention to the 7900 block of Rock Rose, near Red Bud. Banks was found down in or near a roadside ditch a short distance from where the confrontation beg ...