On February 13, 2018, Jude Onyegbulum Osuji Jr., a 28-year-old African American man who worked at the Summer Place Villas apartment complex in Gainesville, Florida, was fatally shot in the complex office. Another employee, 61-year-old Robert Earl Brumbaugh, was also shot and killed when 23-year-old resident Cedric Tremaine Plummer entered the office and opened fire. The shooting followed a dispute about property damage in Plummer’s apartment.

After the killings, Plummer kidnapped a 19-year-old female employee, Hailey Louise Roberts, at gunpoint and forced her to drive him to Georgia; she was later found alive but emotionally distressed. Plummer was arrested in Lowndes County, Georgia, a few hours after the attack and taken into custody without resistance. He was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping and was held in the Alachua County Jail on those charges.

Evaluations by clinical psychologists and a psychiatrist found Plummer incompetent to stand trial, and he was committed to a state mental hospital for competency restoration. The community was deeply affected by the deaths. If anyone knew Osuji Jr. or has information about the events that day, please share what you know.