Bobby Joe Fernandez, a 39-year-old man from Wichita Falls, Texas, was shot in the neck as he left a convenience store on March 6, 2021 and died at the scene. Witnesses reported seeing a man with a gun near a flea market on Holliday Road and one witness said a possible suspect got into a pickup; an initial suspect description included a man wearing a red bandana.

On March 8, 2021, Christopher Franklin Payne was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The arrest affidavit states surveillance footage showed Payne approaching Fernandez inside the store and later outside, where the shooting occurred, then walking away after a gunshot was heard. Investigators say an argument about money between Payne and Fernandez led to the fatal shooting; Payne was later indicted and faced up to life in prison if convicted. This was the fourth homicide in Wichita Falls in 2021.

Fernandez was of Hispanic ethnicity and remembered by family and friends for his carpentry skills. Does anyone who knew Bobby or who was near the flea market on Holliday Road that day have information to share?