Sincere Javier Estrada Lopez was a 16-year-old rising junior at Rome High School in Georgia. The life of the young African American male was cut short on a Monday evening in the summer of 2020. His family held a public viewing and graveside service for him at Eastview Cemetery in early June.
Around 7 p.m. on June 1, 2020, Rome Police responded to a call on Grady Avenue. They found Sincere had been shot multiple times. First responders rendered aid, but Sincere was pronounced deceased by the coroner at the scene. The Rome Police Department immediately began a homicide investigation, and an autopsy was scheduled with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner's Office.
The investigation led police to another teenager. On June 25, 2020, authorities arrested 16-year-old Jevion Andrez Benham and charged him with murder.
Benham, who was 15 years old at the time of the shooting, had been taken into custody in nearby Bartow County earlier in June on unrelated charges and was being held at a Youth Detention Center. After his first court appearance in Floyd County Superior Court, it was determined that he would be charged as an adult for the death of Sincere Lopez.
In September 2021, Jevion Andrez Benham pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He was sent to Valdosta State Prison to serve his sentence. While incarcerated, Benham was found deceased in his cell. His death was officially ruled a homicide. With the conviction for Sincere’s death, his case was closed as of September 2021.
