On the evening of April 24, 2019, 47-year-old Danny Ray Hicks was shot and killed in Bonaire, Georgia. Hicks, who was visiting friends in Houston County, had gone with a female companion to check on a vacant residence when they encountered a man trespassing on the property. An altercation occurred and the trespasser, later identified as Kevin Leonard Hobbs, 26, shot Hicks multiple times. Hicks was pronounced dead at the scene after the Houston County Sheriff’s Office responded.

Investigators named Hobbs as the primary suspect, and a manhunt followed. On April 28, 2019, at about 11:30 p.m. Hobbs was found near Canion Place and Solomon Road in Kathleen and was arrested without incident. He was booked into the Houston County Detention Center and charged with murder; the case was set to proceed through the courts.

If anyone witnessed the encounter at the vacant house or has information about that evening, please share what is known.