Ikea Imari Hood Obituary – A 17-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 17-year-old high school junior in Southern Dallas Sunday morning is in police custody. The Dallas Police Department said Monday afternoon they were looking for 17-year-old Trevon Darnell Wright in connection with the murder of 17-year-old Ikea Imari Hood, a mother to a 3-week-old infant girl and a junior at Lancaster High School. An arrest warrant for murder was issued for Wright on Monday, police said. He was taken into custody sometime Tuesday by a U.S. Marshals Task Force and taken to the Dallas County Jail. A bond amount has not yet been set and it’s unclear if Wright has obtained an attorney to speak on his behalf.
Dallas Police said officers were called to a shooting on the 700 block of Grambling Drive at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday and that when the officers arrived they found a woman injured with an apparent gunshot wound. The woman, later identified as Hood, died from her injury. Hood’s seven siblings and other family members are rallying around each other, united in grief and shock over the loss of the beautiful and talented young woman.