As the calendar marks nearly a year since a Thanksgiving tragedy in Houston, a family's plea for justice remains as urgent as ever. On the eve of last year's holiday, two teenagers' lives were brutally cut short. President Wynn, 18, and his cousin Damarion Lewis, 17, were mercilessly shot down as they unloaded Thanksgiving groceries, a festive preparation that turned fatal in an instant as reported by ABC13.
The Houston Police Department issued a renewed call for information regarding the cold-blooded shooting that occurred in the parking lot of an apartment complex on Southlake Drive. According to KHOU, the fatal shots rang out moments before the teens planned to engage in a night filled with video game tournaments, a small joy replaced by an enduring echo of loss.
"He would have been 19. He would have been 19 on Dec. 8. My baby was about to turn 19," Tasha Cooke, the president's mother, painfully recounted in 2022. Her words—a heartbreaking reminder of a future unjustly stolen—punctuate a mother's nightmare that began that ill-fated Thanksgiving eve and persists—a relentless torment that time seems unwilling to soothe.
The absence of suspects, or even a semblance of motive, has perplexed investigators and the community alike—the unknowns mirroring the empty chairs at the holiday tables of the Wynn and Lewis families. "I am lost, I am at a loss for words, Loss of Grief. Not understanding how to put together something that was stolen from me," Cooke told KHOU. The family's call to action remains the same: anyone with information must come forward so that the threads of justice might be woven for President and Damarion.
As the anniversary of the double homicide approaches this Friday, the Houston Police Department urges the public—anyone who might hold even the smallest piece of this puzzle—to step forward. Tips can be directed to HPD's homicide division at 713-308-3600 or to Crime Stoppers at 713-22-TIPS.
