Catherine Kaydee Bobbitt, 33, was shot while driving westbound on Kingman Boulevard in Des Moines on the afternoon of April 3, 2020. Her young daughter was in the vehicle but was not injured and called for help. Emergency crews found Catherine unresponsive near 33rd and Hickman; she was transported to a local hospital and died a couple of hours later.

Friends and family describe her as a dedicated single mother who raised her children in the Catholic Worker community and who had just bought new bicycles for them the day before the shooting. Police concluded the attack was targeted rather than random. In February 2021, U.S. Marshals arrested Antonio Markez Hodges in northwest Des Moines on a material witness warrant; he was charged with first-degree murder and intimidation with a dangerous weapon. A second man, Derrick Glenn Smith Jr., was later identified and taken into custody after treatment for unrelated shooting injuries; investigators believe he was the person who fired the fatal shot and he faces the same charges.

Does anyone have information about Catherine’s last movements or the events that led up to April 3, 2020?