Dickinson man's murder still unsolved a month after disappearance, body found

DICKINSON, Texas (KTRK) -- A grieving family has spent the last month searching for answers in the death of a 29-year-old man.

On June 1, the Dickinson Police Department found DeMarcus George's body less than a mile away from his apartment two days after his mother reported him missing on May 30.

Only a small field and an abandoned apartment complex separate where George lived from where he may have died.

"I just felt his spirit here," Yulonda George, DeMarcus' mother, said.

Dickinson police found the 29-year-old's body with a gunshot wound near Borden's Gully off Tanglewood.

His mother reported him missing when she hadn't heard from him and he didn't show up to work.

"Instantly, God knows, something in my spirit just shook," she said.

Last week, she and her family came back to the scene for the first time since her son was found in search of answers.

"That's what's hurting," she said "I'm like, why would someone want to do that to my son? You know? Why would they do that? He didn't deserve that. Why? Why would y'all want to take his life? I don't understand."

Dickinson police described his case as an active homicide investigation. They said they're following up on leads, but so far, no one has been arrested in the death of a father of two who was described by family as loving, giving, and protective.

"Don't no mother want to bury their child, especially to murder. I just ask the public to just do the right thing," Yulonda George said. "If you know anything or have seen anything, just call us or the police. That's all we are asking is for closure. DeMarcus deserved this closure."

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