Social media erupted in March 2017 when a teenage father was gunned down in a daytime shooting in the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas.
The broad-daylight killing was captured on video by bystanders, and spread like wildfire online as area residents — including the victim’s mother — realized that they recognized the apparent perpetrator, as seen on Snapped: Killer Couples, airing Sundays at 6/5c on Oxygen.
“When they showed me who he was, I was like, ‘Wait a minute!” recalled LaShandra Alex, mother to 19-year-old Drekeiston “Dre” Alex, who lost so much blood from the single-shot leg wound that he died as responders transported him to the hospital. “I know him. Like, I know him personally. I know this kid.”…