Sincere Javier Estrada Lopez was a 16-year-old rising junior at Rome High School when he was shot multiple times and killed on the evening of June 1, 2020. Rome Police responded to a call on Grady Avenue around 7 p.m.; first responders rendered aid but the coroner pronounced Sincere deceased at the scene. An autopsy was scheduled with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner’s Office and the Rome Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

The investigation led to another teenager. On June 25, 2020, 16-year-old Jevion Andrez Benham was arrested and charged with murder; he had been 15 at the time of the shooting and was already in custody on unrelated charges in Bartow County. After his first appearance, prosecutors moved to charge him as an adult in Floyd County Superior Court. In September 2021 Benham pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to serve time; with that conviction the case was closed.

If anyone knew Sincere or has information about the events of June 1, 2020 on Grady Avenue, please share what you know with investigators.