Here we go again folks. Good Ole McIntosh County, Ga.
Former Jacksonville Bubba Burgers exec killed as he changed tire off I-95
Man, 49, had recently left job at Bubba Burgers.
Posted: September 10, 2012 - 10:02am | Updated: September 11, 2012 - 1:57pm
TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union
Glynn County police investigators work the homicide scene Monday morning where Richard Hollis, 49, was found dead with the gray Toyota, shown at left, parked on the shoulder of Georgia 99 at Interstate 95.
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Richard Hollis, pictured with his wife, Rhonda, was traveling to see his brother, his wife said.
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When Richard Hollis retired a month ago, the 49-year-old planned for it to stick. His wife said she would wait and see.
But he was shot and killed while changing a tire early Monday beside Interstate 95 in Georgia, bringing a brutal end to the future of the former Jacksonville Bubba Burgers executive.
Police responding to a 7 a.m. call found Hollis dead and leaning against his car on the shoulder of Georgia 99 just east of the interstate interchange, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said.
A jack was under Hollis’ Toyota Camry and a flat tire he was changing was off the car.
His wallet was missing, his wife said.
Hollis was on his way to see his brother in Raleigh, N.C., his wife, Rhonda Hollis, said at their home off Kernan Boulevard.
“He kissed me. He told me he was going,” she said. “He called me at 4 o’clock in the morning to see that my alarm went off.”
A police dispatcher on the way to work at 5:30 a.m. in Georgia saw him walking around his car, Doering said.
About 6 a.m. another witness saw a small sedan, maroon or red with a round manufacturer’s emblem on the rear, pull away from the side of the road near Hollis’ car and drive onto I-95 headed north.
The description was vague, police said. They did not have a make or model Monday.
Police were called when another passing motorist saw Hollis leaning forward and became alarmed that he was completely motionless.
They called 911, Doering said.
“It’s just so senseless,” Rhonda Hollis said. “He would have given them his wallet, he would have given them his car.”
Generosity was a hallmark for Richard Hollis.
He coached his son Jordan and his son’s friends at baseball, eventually volunteering as an assistant at high schools in Jacksonville and northern St. Johns County. His family said he bought countless pairs of baseball cleats for players who needed them and mentored friends of his son when they might be in a scrape.
“If they were afraid to call their own parents, they would call my dad,” said Jordan Hollis, who has just graduated from college.
“He shaped and molded my son’s character,” said family friend Pamela Lucas-Rhett, one of several people gathered at the Hollis home Monday.
He also bought her son his first car and has helped her pay bills when money was short.
“My nieces and nephews called him Uncle Coach Richard,” she said.
After leaving Bubba Burgers, Hollis was working around the house, walking the dogs and cooking for the first time in 25 years, his wife said. He’d recently prepared a roast but not before calling her at work.
“He asked ‘Do I put it on bake or broil?’ ” she said. She said he was “still surprising me after 25 years.”
Hollis was vice president of operations for Bubba Burgers before leaving, said Andy Stenson, vice president of marketing for Hickory Foods, which owns Bubba Burgers.
“He’ll be greatly missed,’’ Stenson said.
Monday, Hollis’ car was parked facing east on the south shoulder of Georgia 99 at a bare spot where truckers and others frequently pull off the highway.
A tire was leaning against the rear driver’s side of the car as the officers gathered evidence.
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Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2012-09-10/story/former-jacksonville-bubba-burgers-exec-killed-he-changed-tire-i-95#ixzz27G6j0sZX
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