On the night of Thursday, September 13, 2012, 43-year-old Tyrone Hopkins, known to friends and family as Poe Joe, was driving on a ramp to eastbound Interstate 94 in Gary, Indiana at about 10:40 p.m. Another vehicle pulled alongside, a shot was fired from that car, and a bullet struck Hopkins in the head. He was taken to Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus in Gary and was pronounced dead in the early hours of Friday, September 14, 2012. The Lake County coroner ruled the death a homicide from a gunshot wound.

Hopkins was a 1989 graduate of Horace Mann High School, active at New Life Missionary Baptist Church, a member of the McDonald’s Breakfast Club, and had worked for about ten years as a maintenance worker for L & B Management. He left behind eleven children and two grandchildren. The identity of the person or persons in the other vehicle remains unknown.

If anyone knew Tyrone, saw the ramp to eastbound I-94 on September 13, 2012, or has information about the vehicle that fled, please come forward.