Vendors will set up Friday night for a popular flea market in Dallas' West End, but Dale Orsburn will be noticeably absent this weekend.
The 58-year-old flea market vendor was shot and killed by random gunfire four weeks ago at the street sale, which is held on the first and third weekends of every month.
Investigators said they have gotten very few tips, and Orsburn's wife, Kathryn, said she has gotten very little sleep.
"I want this person stopped now before they do something else," she said. "I don't want this to happen to anyone else."
Police said someone driving along Woodall Rodgers Freeway rolled down a car window and fired aimlessly into the crowded flea market parking lot off Field Street during the July Fourth weekend.
”A little before 5 a.m., the Lewisville police rang the doorbell,” Kathryn Orsburn said. “They insisted I sit down, which I didn’t, but they told me that he had been murdered.”
She said she didn't believe the officers at first, thinking no one would want to harm her husband.
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But Orsburn was an innocent bystander, Dallas police said.
"The senseless nature of this crime is what is most disturbing to us in the homicide unit," Lt. Craig Miller said.
After 31 years of marriage, Kathryn Orsburn said she is struggling to make it through her first month without her husband.
“There’s things like yesterday, I read something in a book and said, 'I have to show this to Dale,' and then I realized Dale is not there to show it to,” she said.
She said she will be out at the flea market Friday in memory of her late husband.
There is a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case. Anyone with information should contact the Dallas police homicide unit.
