FARGO, N.D. (KFGO) – In the early morning hours of June 7, Jay Halvorson was shot and killed during a confrontation next to his food truck, Texas Q BBQ and Catering, in a parking lot near downtown Fargo.
Halvorson was known throughout the community for helping work out plans for the Food Truck scene and for his food. Now, a memorial event is planned in his honor, the idea of his former fiancee and job partner, Kate Holten.
Holten says her life was “forever altered” by the killing, but she didn’t want Jay to be forgotten and with the help of Mayor Tim Mahoney and the Fargo-Cass County Health Department’s Environmental Health office, which licenses food trucks, she organized the event.
Holten says Jay was a “champion for the food trucks and really got it off the ground, working with downtown and doing what he loved.”
The Jason Halvorson Memorial Event, open to the public, is scheduled for September 17 in the public health parking lot at the corner of 13th Ave. and 25th St. S. As many as a dozen food truck vendors are expected. Some of the profits will go to pay some bills to lessen the financial burden for Halverson’s parents.
One of two men charged with killing Halvorson pleaded not guilty to murder-conspiracy earlier this week.