Eric Hopkins, 27, was shot and killed in Toledo, Ohio, on the night of June 18, 2021. Police found him with a single gunshot wound to the head in the 2900 block of Rockwood Place in the city’s Old West End; he was pronounced dead at the scene after officers responded just before midnight.

Officers at the scene found Hopkins’s 25-year-old cousin, Tytiana Turner, who was arrested and initially charged with murder. Court filings and later proceedings describe Turner as having admitted to firing one shot. Defense statements said the two had grown up together, were out drinking with friends that night, and that Turner — who carried a gun for protection from an abusive partner but said she was unfamiliar with it — was handing the weapon to Hopkins when it discharged. A witness told prosecutors the cousins were not arguing but were intoxicated.

On February 15, 2022, Turner entered an Alford plea to first-degree felony involuntary manslaughter with a firearm specification; on February 28, 2022, a judge sentenced her to six to eight and a half years in prison. Does anyone have information about Hopkins’s last night or the circumstances on Rockwood Place?