Dennis David Hopkins, 40, was shot to death on February 28, 2020, at the Love’s Travel Stop at 12501 Apex Great Basin Way in Apex, Nevada. Hopkins and his wife were working on her broken-down pickup when a dispute with 60-year-old Mark A. Doocy of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, escalated into gunfire. Doocy had been doing odd jobs for the couple and there had been an argument over a camper Doocy had been using and his plan to sell it.

According to the arrest report, Doocy retrieved a gun from his black GMC Envoy and fired through the windshield of Hopkins’ Ford Excursion, striking Hopkins in the right side of his chest. Hopkins tried to flee by driving away but collapsed in a desert area after being shot again; Doocy then fled in the Envoy. A witness photographed Doocy’s vehicle next to Hopkins’ body, and that image, with other witness statements, helped identify Doocy. He was arrested later at a truck stop in Rice County, Minnesota, and extradited to Southern Nevada to face murder charges. A preliminary hearing was scheduled.

If anyone was at the Love’s Travel Stop that day or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.