Hernandez Hubbard II, a 21-year-old Black man from Columbus, Georgia, was shot inside a home on Stone Way Drive in the early morning of July 22, 2025. Officers were dispatched at about 5:54 a.m. to the 6100 block of Stone Way Drive, where Hubbard was found inside with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional, then transferred to an Atlanta-area hospital and pronounced dead at 2:59 p.m. that same day.

Local reports said he had been in bed when shots were fired into the house, sat up as the gunfire erupted, and was struck. Detectives from the Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit asked anyone who had been in the area of Warm Springs Road near Schomburg Road between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. to come forward.

No arrest, identified suspect, or charges tied to Hubbard’s killing were announced in the Columbus Police Department’s news releases through March 2026, and the police release on July 22, 2025, treated the case as an active investigation and sought public assistance. Did anyone in that neighborhood see or hear anything that morning?