Garland police responded around 11 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, to a report of a fight in a business parking lot in the 5300 block of North Garland Avenue. Officers were told gunshots had been heard at the location. They found an unconscious woman in the lot, where bystanders were giving life-saving aid. Police helped with life-saving measures and took her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police identified her as 19-year-old Zaria Calhoun.
Police said an initial investigation found that a group of people who knew each other had gathered in the parking lot. An altercation broke out and escalated to gunfire. Police identified 20-year-old Demarcus Deshaun Hawkins of Louisiana as a suspect. He has been arrested and charged with murder. Police did not say what the group had gathered for before the shooting.
Hawkins is being held at the Garland Detention Center, and no bond has been set. Garland police said the investigation is ongoing.