A bonfire party in Henry County, Georgia, on the night of October 26, 2016, ended in a mass shooting that left four people dead. Eighteen-year-old Matthew Hicks of McDonough was among those killed; three others who died were 29-year-old Keith Gibson of Covington, 20-year-old Sophia Bullard of Thomaston, and 20-year-old Destiny Olinger of Jackson, who was critically injured at the scene and later died at Grady Memorial Hospital a few days afterward.

Investigators say an argument occurred during the gathering on Moccasin Gap Road. Two men, later identified as Jacob Cole Kosky, then 22, and Matthew Baker Jr., then 19, reportedly left and returned with firearms. Both were arrested and charged with murder within a day. Three others—Jacob Williams, 18, Kayla Head, 21, and Brooke Knight, 19—were charged with obstruction of a police investigation.

In February 2019 Kosky pleaded guilty but mentally ill to four counts of malice murder, confessed to being the shooter, and received four consecutive life sentences without parole plus five years. Baker consistently maintained his innocence and was found not guilty by a Henry County jury in May 2024; he was released after the acquittal.

If anyone knew Matthew Hicks or was at that gathering, any information about what happened that night could still be important.