On the night of May 7, 2020, 19-year-old Robert George Dockery III, known to some as lil Bobby, was shot in an Aspen Hill neighborhood near Hewitt Avenue. Officers on patrol heard gunfire about 11:35 p.m. and, after multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting in the 3100 block, found Dockery lying in the street with at least one gunshot wound. He was transported to a hospital but died of his injuries just days before his twentieth birthday; his death was ruled a homicide and the Montgomery County Department of Police Major Crimes Division opened an investigation.

Detectives pursued leads in the weeks afterward but by May 2021 had announced that viable leads were exhausted and asked the public for help, offering up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been reported. If anyone has information about the shooting on Hewitt Avenue on May 7, 2020, please come forward.