After his parents divorced, Evans moved to Houston where he lived with his grandmother, mother and younger brother in the South Acres neighborhood, where he attended Worthing High School.

(Mental Freedom Obtains Independence) and The New Black Panther Party under the leadership of Khalid Abdul Muhammad who was appointed as the leader of the organization.

[3] The People's New Black Panther Party in Houston has since split from Quanell X amid ongoing allegations that he has not delivered services to families he was paid to represent.

[9] In June 2004 Quanell X was charged with evading arrest, which was later dismissed on appeal and the record was expunged with a letter of apology from the Houston Police Department.

[12] He also criticized the Harris County sheriff's decision not to search for Stewart's body in a Humble, Texas, area landfill.

Shepherd made a full confession to Quanell X and Stewart's body was later discovered to be unrecoverable due to the suspect's burning of her remains in two barbecue pits.

Horn had shot and killed two men, Hernando Riascos Torres (AKA Miguel Antonio DeJesus) and Diego Ortiz, illegal immigrants and members of a burglary and fake ID ring from Colombia.

[14] Quanell X, who thought the shootings may have been racially motivated,[citation needed] approached Horn's house to speak to the media.

On January 24, 2008, Quanell X called for Chuck Rosenthal's resignation following the email scandal that showed that he had sent and received racist messages while working in his official capacity.

[19] After being in police custody for several days, murder suspect Randy Sylvester Sr. would only confess to Quanell X and revealed the location of his missing children.

[24] On August 1, 2011, Quanell X pleaded with the residents of inner city neighborhoods to stop the "No Snitching" policy that institutes a bias of those who provide information to police after a series of crimes and murders had plagued the Third Ward area in recent weeks.

"[25] In July 2013, Quanell X and others protested and effectively blocked Texas State Highway 288 over the acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.