I just randomly thought about this case and decided to look it up today. Kendrick Dewayne Finch, the man charged with murder in the April 5, 2025 shooting of Ashlee Long on Main Street in downtown Dallas, died on August 28, 2026. He was 35. I could not find any news coverage of this.

His obituary at Evergreen Memorial Funeral Home in Dallas lists Feb 3, 1991 to Aug 28, 2026. It gives no cause of death.

The Dallas County courts portal lists case F-25-75722 (State of Texas vs Finch, Kendrick Dewayne, Criminal District Court No. 1) as closed. The disposition is "Dismissal - DA," dated 08/31/2026.

The $500,000 bond is listed as discharged, and the ankle monitor was removed on 09/01/2026.

The docket does not state why the DA dismissed the case. I have not seen the dismissal order itself.

Case Details for those that don't know: Around 2:30 a.m. on April 5, 2025, on the 1800 block of Main Street in downtown Dallas, William Kistler touched a passing white Mercedes, and passenger Kendrick Finch got out with a gun. Finch fired at least eight rounds, hitting Kistler in the leg and Ashlee Long, a 28 year old Houston real estate agent. Finch surrendered on April 18, was charged with murder, and posted a $500,000 bond around May 13, 2025 after a judge declined to reduce it. The surveillance footage is pretty crazy, you see Long and Kistler seemingly arguing with people in front of a bar and then Kistler walks into the street and randomly does some hand movement to car driving by. Finch gets out with a gun to his side and Kistler see's that I guess and grabs Long's purse to pull out a gun and then all hell breaks loose and a women is dead.

It's been a bit since I've watched a docuseries that was a complete mindbender. I'm not sure what I thought it was going to be - and I'm still not sure what it is. It covers so many things and once you think it's peaked...new turn!

I found this after watching "The Garden: Cult or Commune" which also a series of next level batshit crazy.

On March 25, 2000, A car collision occured on Indiana State road 67 near Martinsville. Seven people died and two people would be injured when a 1989 Firebird Pontiac would slam into a minivan.

She had four children in her car; Her two sons, Jacob;5, and Jordan;12, her daughter, Joney;9, and her nephew, Jeremy Young; 10, who was celebrating his birthday. The dead in the other vehicle were the Reel’s; Thomas; 40, and his two children, Bradley;13, and Jesica;14. They were coming home from a church event.

The survivors included the driver of the Pontiac, Judy Kirby, a mother of ten, and 13-year-old Richard Miller, a family friend of the Reel’s. Judy was thrown from her car and injured her head and broke some bones in her legs. Richard would have permanent injured to his right foot and back from the crash.

First responders would respond to the scene and attend to it. They were later haunted by it and have nightmares of the grisly.

Judy was taken to the hospital and after being discharged, was arrested and charged with seven counts of murder. During her hearing the judge asked if she understood her rights, Kirby replied; “I don’t understand….I don’t remember, I don’t remember the accident….I would never hurt anybody; I never murdered anybody….I miss my babies.”

She went to trial in 2001. The trial became one of Indiana’s most highly publicized trials since the 1970’s when Steve Judy went to trial. The prosecution claimed Judy wanted to end her life. The defense said she was suffering from mental illness and post-partum depression. This came from the fact she had a child 5 months before the crash and was suffering depression due to it. More details of Judy’s life came into the trial.

Judy was married at the age of 15 To Victor Kirby. She and Victor got a divorce ten years later. She would begin a new relationship with either Victor’s brother or uncle, Tinnie, (various sources) and had more children with him. Judy and Tinnie were having relationship issues and she believed her relationship would end. She was also drug trafficking with Tinnie and she was paranoid about being arrested or having her children taken away. She thought the secret service had dug a tunnel underneath her home. She knocked holes in her wall looking for surveillance devices.

3 weeks before the crash, she had checked herself into a hospital due to her health problems. She was supposed to be there for three days, but checked herself out after two days. Doctors told her family she needed to be watched. (I’ll be commenting the timeline since it’s very long.)

She was found guilty of the murders, and sentenced to 215 years imprisonment. She collapsed in court hearing it.

in 2014 she filed for a new trial but was unsuccessful in getting one.

Photos:

1 - 3 Judy Kirby

4 - Judy’s Pontiac

5 - the Reel’s minivan

6 - The victims: Jacob, Joney, Jordan, Jeremy, Bradley, Jesica, and Thomas.

7 - A permanent memorial where the crash happened. Six small crosses and one large cross representing the six children and Thomas.

8 - A writing assignment Joney Kirby made on her mom.