Hernandez Hubbard II, a 21-year-old Black male from Columbus, Georgia, was shot inside a home on Stone Way Drive in the early morning of July 22, 2025, in what police described as a shooting investigation and local reports characterized as a drive-by attack. Columbus police said officers were dispatched at about 5:54 a.m. to the 6100 block of Stone Way Drive, where they found Hubbard inside the residence with a gunshot wound.
He was first taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional for treatment, then transferred to an Atlanta-area hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:59 p.m. that same day. Local reporting added the grim detail that he had been in bed when the gunfire erupted, sat up as the shots tore into the home, and was struck.
The killing unfolded in that terrible hour before sunrise, when a house that should have been quiet suddenly became a crime scene. Investigators from the Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit took over the case, and detectives began asking for help from anyone who had been in the area of Warm Springs Road near Schomburg Road between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. The public appeal suggested that police believed something important may have been seen or heard along that route in the moments surrounding the shooting. Reports published at the time said the case left relatives and neighbors stunned, especially because the gunfire reached a victim who was inside his own home when he was hit.
As for suspects, arrests, and charges, no publicly announced arrest tied to Hubbard’s killing was located in the Columbus Police Department’s available news releases through March 2026, and no suspect was publicly identified in the contemporaneous coverage that surfaced online. The official police release on July 22, 2025, treated the case as an active investigation and asked for public assistance, but it did not name a shooter, describe an arrest, or list charges against anyone. Based on the public record available from those sources, the case appears to have remained unresolved in those reports, with no announced trial or conviction connected to his death.
