Overview

• Kevin Watson, 42, was shot once in the chest on August 13 while broadcasting himself on Facebook Live in a South Austin parking lot and died at Mount Sinai Hospital.
• Cellphone and surveillance footage show a ski-masked assailant leaning out of a white car before firing into Watson’s vehicle around 6:14 p.m.
• Officers recovered more than 40 shell casings—including multiple rifle rounds—between Watson’s killing and a drive-by slaying of Brandon Maxey nearby two days earlier.
• On August 12, police charged Demontre Eason and Justin Neal-Guy with murder and home invasion in a separate March West Rogers Park homicide, marking the only recent case with arrests.
• The livestream’s millions of views have intensified debate over social media’s role in sharing real-time violence as investigators rely on forensic evidence to pursue unsolved shootings.