In the early morning hours of May 23, 2019, 24-year-old Khalil Hopson was shot and later died at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was found by his father in his Cedar Avenue home in Sharon, Pennsylvania after sounds of a struggle; beside him lay his pit bull, Blue, also shot and later deceased. Hopson was remembered as a basketball player and the father of two young sons.

Investigators say the killing was part of a robbery planned by people Hopson knew. Alexis Holmes, 20, of New Castle, was identified at the scene; Hopson’s father recalled his son saying she let him in. Texts and surveillance reportedly tied Holmes to her 27-year-old ex-boyfriend, Eddie James Robinson Jr., including footage of Holmes handing a firearm to Robinson. Holmes and Robinson were arrested in June 2019; Robinson pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, cruelty to animals, and perjury and received 15 to 45 years. Holmes pleaded guilty to robbery and burglary and received 18 to 40 years.

A third suspect, Seon Dontae Davon Perry, 32, of New Castle, was charged in June 2021 with criminal homicide, robbery, conspiracy, burglary, and aggravated cruelty to animals; authorities located and arrested him in May 2023 and he was awaiting extradition back to Mercer County. Does anyone have information about Khalil, his movements that night, or the people involved?