2 indicted on murder charges in connection with 2023 shooting that killed 1 and injured another

 

Jhirrell Harris, 42, and Stephanie Gayden, 37, were charged in May in connection with the November 2023 shooting at a Walmart in Frisco.

FRISCO, Texas — Two people were indicted on murder complaints in connection with a 2023 shooting that left one person dead and another injured, court records show.

Jhirrell Harris, 42, and Stephanie Gayden, 37, were charged in May in connection with the November 2023 shooting at a Walmart near Preston Road and Hickory Street. Dung Doan, 62, of Frisco, was killed in the shooting and Zachary Lowe, 20, was injured.

Harris was in custody at the Ouachita County Jail in Monroe, Louisiana, on an unrelated charge when detectives served warrants on him and Gayden, also of Monroe, police say.

As we previously reported, both Doan and Lowe lived near the Walmart at the time of the shooting. Doan had immigrated to the U.S. with his wife a year before the shooting and Lowe is a former Army private.

Doan would often takes walks to the Walmart for exercise and to be in better health.

“He did this regularly where he’d walk to Walmart to get something and walk back,” said Dung Doan’s niece Kaitlin Nguyen told WFAA in November 2023.

Nguyen describes a loving and hard-working man who arrived to the states for a better and safer life. The husband and wife did not know the language but found jobs to help pay bills and put their son through college.

“Why [the shooter] would take away a person’s life? He has no right to do that. He is leaving behind his wife, his two kids, and a large extended family who cares about him,” Nguyen said at the time.

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