On August 9, 2023, at about 2:03 a.m., officers responding to the 700 block of South Main Street in Copperas Cove found 37-year-old Richard Jerome Powers unresponsive with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene by Coryell County Justice of the Peace John Guinn. The Copperas Cove Police Department opened a homicide investigation and described the shooting as an isolated incident with no ongoing threat to the public.

Powers lived in Copperas Cove and worked for Navigator Transportation in Temple. He served as vice president of the Nuboyz With Attitude Biker Club and is survived by his sister Volanda Powers of Gulfport, Mississippi; children Kelendria Powers, Collins, Silas Pope of Gulfport, Jamarra Powers, and Tina Hamilton of Killeen, Texas; and other relatives and friends. As of the latest information, no arrests have been made and no suspects have been publicly identified.

Anyone with information relevant to this homicide is asked to contact the Copperas Cove Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division.