Dana Lee Hopkins was a 35-year-old bouncer from Raleigh, North Carolina who was shot while trying to break up a fight at a party inside a rental hall on the night of Friday, June 7, 2019. Police were called about 11:30 p.m. to the 3600 block of Capital Boulevard; Hopkins was found with a gunshot wound and taken to WakeMed, where he died the next morning on June 8, 2019. Two other people were also shot and taken to the same hospital shortly after in a private vehicle.

An arrest followed quickly: the day after the shooting, Raleigh police charged 20-year-old Taelyn Ladarius Jiggetts with murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a felon; he was held without bond. On December 14, 2020, police announced a second arrest, charging 20-year-old Julius Lamonte Curtis with murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; he was also held without bail. As of that December 2020 announcement, two men had been charged in Hopkins’s killing.