On Oct. 12, 1985, a Black male was attacked outside of Dave’s Liquor Store located at 650 East Hattie Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Two men approached the man, stealing his wallet and stabbing him in the right side of his chest. Several law enforcement agencies responded, including the Fort Worth Police Department and the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office and began investigating the case as a homicide. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries during surgery.
The man did not have any identification in his wallet and could not be identified. Through a Crimestoppers tip, two men were later arrested for the murder, despite authorities not knowing the victim’s identity. The two suspects told police that they targeted the victim because he was a stranger in the neighborhood. The man was looking for a place to buy beer and the two men lured him to the side of a building and stabbed him.
Investigators assembled details about the man sharing them with the public along with postmortem photographs, in hopes that he could be identified. Investigators noted that the man was approximately 5′ 3″ tall, weighed around 160 pounds. He had brown eyes, medium-length curly black hair, a mustache, and a goatee. At the time he was killed, he was wearing blue jeans, blue tennis shoes, a tan leather jacket and glasses…