{"id":114806,"date":"2026-01-08T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:09:18","slug":"trackdown-scyene-road-murders-remain-unsolved-after-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/114806\/","title":{"rendered":"Trackdown: Scyene Road murders remain unsolved after two years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A double murder at the intersection of Saint Augustin and Scyene Road in Dallas was previously featured on Trackdown. It\u2019s still unsolved two years later.<\/p>\n<p> Trackdown: Scyene Road Murders   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/p-shaun-trackdown-scyene-rd-murders_00.00.24.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Morland Smith (left) and Jemarcus Irving (right) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The murders happened around 9:15 a.m. on Dec. 27, 2023 in front of a shopping center.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;A red Nissan Sentra enters the parking lot from Saint Augustine traveling westbound,&#8221; said Det. Fernando Silva with the Dallas Police Department. &#8220;Pulled into the parking lot and four masked and covered up suspects exit the vehicle and begin shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">One of the victims, Jemarcus Irving, appeared to be the target. The other, Morland Smith, was simply in the wrong at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Review of the video and talking to witnesses, it was pretty clear that Morland Smith was not the target. And it looked like Jemarcus may have been the target,&#8221; Det. Silva said. &#8220;At that point, the suspects retreat back into their vehicle and then exit the shopping center and then continue going westbound on Scyene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Staphanie Smith is still hoping for justice after her brother\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;Morland was laid back. He was quiet. He would joke a lot. He\u2019s never really got into any trouble or nothing like that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police and the victim\u2019s family are pleading for tips from the public, especially related to clear pictures of the suspects as they get out of the Nissan with guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;You can see clothing, the style of the shoes, the pants and the hoodies that they\u2019re wearing. Kind of gauge their height and weight a little bit of a physical description as well,&#8221; Silva said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Tipsters can contact the detective at 214-608-2832 or fernando.silva@dallaspolice.gov.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The detective believes the pictures are clear enough for people who know the suspects to recognize them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">&#8220;If you know something, please say something because people say it all the time. Because you could be in this position and somebody you know and hold back information,&#8221; the victim\u2019s sister said.<\/p>\n<p> FOX 4\u2019s Trackdown <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">You can watch Shaun Rabb\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/series\/trackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trackdown<\/a>\u00a0series every Wednesday on FOX 4. Episodes are also posted weekly online, on YouTube and on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX Local.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FOX 4 viewers have now helped to make 216 arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: FOX 4&#8217;s Shaun Rabb gathered information for this story by interviewing Det. Fernando Silva with the Dallas Police Department and Staphanie Smith, the victim&#8217;s sister.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/series\/trackdown\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trackdown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; A double murder at the intersection of Saint Augustin and Scyene Road in Dallas was previously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,1726,7719,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-114806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-series","15":"tag-trackdown","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}