On the late morning of Wednesday, September 11, 2024, Dublin police were dispatched to a home on the 400 block of Jones Village Lane after reports of a shooting. Officers found 35-year-old Cortez Kearic Hicks with gunshot wounds; he was transported to Fairview Park Hospital but was pronounced dead at 12:24 p.m.

The Dublin Police Department asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to assist with the inquiry, and investigators appealed to the public for tips as the probe continued. On Wednesday, November 6, 2024, police arrested 18-year-old Quentin Vanteryll Gibson of Dublin and charged him with Murder and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony; he was booked into the Laurens County jail.

What information might help piece together Hicks’s last known movements or who was with him that morning?