‘A slap in the face’: Family members of unsolved Forest Hill murder victims feel forgotten
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A week after two suspects were arrested in connection with the March 3 high-profile killings of North Texas rapper G$ Lil Ronnie and his 5-year-old daughter at a Forest Hill car wash, family members of other homicide victims in the city wonder when they will get justice.
Thirty-two-year-old Norris Gene Nash III and his 38-year-old fiancée, Cassandra Flores, were fatally shot on March 3, 2021 — four years to the day before Ronnie Sibley and R’mani Sibley were gunned down. Forest Hill police have not made any arrests in their case.
Nash’s cousin Allene Love told the Star-Telegram that family members’ efforts to obtain answers from police have been unsuccessful.
“They’re busy, unavailable, call in for a meeting, no phone calls are returned, and the last instance, his mother was actually hung up on,” Love said. “So it has been a difficult process.”
Love regularly posts on social media about Nash and Flores around the anniversary of the killings and asks anyone with information to reach out to the police hotline. This year she held off for a few days out of respect for the Sibley family. She said she was happy to hear that an arrest was made in that case, but described it as “bitterly sweet.”
“To see all of the support and all of the media release and all of the effort poured into the case, it was kind of like a slap in the face,” Love said. “Like, what makes their case — you know, I understand that there’s a child involved — but what makes their case so different to where it’s very important that we catch this person. And why, why is our case, you know, less important?”
According to Forest Hill police records, there were five homicides in the city in 2021, the year Nash and Flores were killed. Their case and one other are still unsolved.
The Forest Hill Police Department did not respond to the Star-Telegram’s request for an update on Nash and Flores’ case or return a request for comment for this story.
One thing Love said she feels might make the case a lower priority for police is the fact that Nash was into selling marijuana before his death. About two weeks before he was shot, he told his mother someone was trying to kill him.
But according to Love, Nash also expressed a desire to leave that lifestyle behind and was actively working to make positive changes in his life.
“Because of that, I don’t think that they’re taking the case quite seriously,” she said. “And it just, it breaks my heart, because even if that was his thing, he still deserves justice.”
Police have said the shooter wore a black mask. He was dressed in a dark hooded sweatshirt with the writing Billie Branded on the front, gray or faded black pants, and blue tennis shoes with white trim.
Love said she doesn’t believe lack of evidence is the problem in her cousin’s case. Police got the suspect’s description from security camera footage at Nash’s home in the 4900 block of Melinda Drive, where the killings took place.
Neighbors also shared footage with police, according to Love. Those who saw the suspect before the shooting and those who saw the suspect’s car shared that information with investigators.
“This is not a cold case,” Love emphasized. “It’s only cold because it’s being sat on, not because there’s a dead end.”
Love used to babysit Nash when she was a teen, and the two were close. She remembers all the athletic trophies he earned when his family lived in California and how he would buy Christmas gifts for those in need.
Flores was a wonderful mother and grandmother, Love said. She and Nash were both quiet, but they knew how to bring out the funny side in each other. The couple enjoyed hosting events in their home for family and neighbors.
“Him being murdered and her being murdered, it didn’t just affect our family,” Love said. “It was the neighborhood, it was their friends, it was the community as well. Anybody in that little circle in their neighborhood, they still have a piece of that date with them.”
‘I lost part of my soul’
Talia Fields was just 15 years old when someone fired shots into her home in the 4200 block of Andrea Lane around 3:15 a.m. on July 9, 2023. The sleeping teen was shot and killed.
Talia’s mother, Talicia Fields, said her prayer hasn’t changed since that day.
“That’s my prayer every day, every single day, that justice will be served,” she told the Star-Telegram.
Almost two years later, there are still no answers from Forest Hill police. Fields said her phone calls would go unanswered. The times she visited the Forest Hill Police Department in person, she would be told the detective was on vacation.
At least two other people were fatally shot in Forest Hill in 2023 — 45-year-old Corey Wallace Sr. and 56-year-old Yolanda Gibbs. Three suspects were arrested in connection with Wallace’s murder, and the suspect in Gibbs’ murder was found dead on a public sidewalk two days after the shooting.
Police have described the suspect connected with Talia’s killing as a man with a shirt tied around his head and a large tattoo on his chest. At the time, police said they were investigating the case as a drive-by shooting.
About an hour after the shooting at the Fields home, police responded to another shots fired call less than a mile away. No injuries were reported, but some property was damaged at that location, police said.
Talicia Fields said she was recently told by the FBI that they would be taking over Talia’s case. She is begging anyone who has information to come forward.
“She was perfect to me,” Fields said of her daughter.
The 15-year-old loved people and school and dreamed of being a nurse. She was just beginning to discover who she was as a person. Fields said Talia was her best friend.
“I lost part of my soul,” she said.
The most recent unsolved homicide victim in Forest Hill is 36-year-old Maria Trujillo. The wife and mother was killed by a stray bullet while in her back yard in the 3900 block of Frisco Avenue.
Police have said they are still looking for suspects in that case.
This story was originally published March 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM.
