Eddie Hoskins Jr., a 55-year-old Army veteran, was shot and killed while walking his Chihuahua on October 13, 2021, in the 8400 block of 75th Avenue North in Seminole, Florida. The shooting occurred about 8:36 p.m.; Hoskins was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbors described the killing as a random act that shocked the local community; Hoskins was remembered as hardworking and trustworthy.

Investigators linked this homicide to an earlier October 7, 2021, shooting in the same neighborhood in which a 40-year-old man survived. Ballistic testing connected the firearm recovered from the arrested suspect to bullets from both scenes. A 20-year-old man, Elijah Iziah Dera’us McCray, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Hoskins’s death, attempted first-degree murder for the October 7 shooting, resisting an officer without violence, and firearm-related offenses. He was held without bond.

Does anyone have information about Eddie’s movements that evening or may have seen suspicious activity in that stretch of 75th Avenue North?