Demontae Rhodes was 24 when he was killed by gunfire on December 20, 2014, in Rockford, Illinois. Known as Montae, he was a boxer, part-owner of R&R Rhodes Enterprises, and active in Rockford First church. He was shot to death in the apartment of his girlfriend, Martia Flint, in an incident that also killed Flint and her two young sons, Tobias K. Smith and Tyrone Smith III.

The motive described in reports centers on jealousy after Flint ended a brief relationship with the assailant and resumed her relationship with Rhodes. The crime devastated the Rockford community and the victims’ families.