Clifford Hogan, a 38-year-old African American man, was killed before dawn on September 27, 2014, inside a home on Park Colony Drive in unincorporated Norcross, Georgia, in what Gwinnett County police described as a home invasion robbery that turned into a homicide. Officers were called to the residence at about 4:31 a.m. and found him lying face down and unresponsive beside the bed. He had been shot once in the lower abdomen and was taken to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he later died.
According to police accounts published in the days after the killing, Hogan had been in bed with his girlfriend when two masked intruders came into the bedroom armed with a pistol and a rifle. The men demanded money, and the terror inside the room quickly spilled into a broader robbery. Investigators said the intruders left with about $1,400 in cash, cell phones, marijuana, and his girlfriend’s purse before fleeing in a dark-colored midsize sedan. The attack had the feel of something sudden and intimate at the same time: two people asleep in what should have been the safest room in the home, then a burst of armed strangers, shouted demands, and a fatal shot that ended the night in panic.
The killing sent shock waves through the family. Local television coverage said relatives gathered for a vigil soon afterward, trying to make sense of a death that had happened with a 10-year-old daughter and Hogan’s pregnant fiancée also in the home. Their public grief gave the case a second life outside the crime scene tape, turning it from a police bulletin into a family’s plea for answers.
As for suspects and arrests, the publicly accessible reporting I found points to two masked male intruders as the only described suspects, but those reports did not identify them by name. Police said at the time that they were following multiple leads, yet in the accessible online sources I located, I did not find a later police announcement, arrest report, indictment, trial report, or conviction tied to Hogan’s killing. Based on those sources, the case was publicly described in its early stages with suspect descriptions and stolen-property details, but without a documented arrest or named defendant in the material available online.
