Bobby Bernard Hopkins, 36, was shot in the chest at the Swamp Car Wash on East University Avenue in Gainesville, Florida, on May 22, 2021. He called 911 but later died at UF Health Shands Hospital. He left two minor children.

The shooter was identified as 24-year-old Eugene Javon Patrick of Gainesville. An Alachua County jury found Patrick guilty of second-degree murder on May 13, 2023. Patrick testified he acted in self-defense after an altercation he said began over a pound of marijuana Hopkins had given him to sell; the jury convicted and Judge James Colaw sentenced Patrick to life in prison.

Hopkins’s mother of his children, Lonetta Carter, sued Kokomo Key Properties Inc., owner of the car wash. A civil jury found the car wash 75% responsible and awarded Hopkins’s family $7.5 million in damages. Does anyone have information about the events at the car wash that day or knew Bobby personally?