Bobby Kent: Murder Between Friends

Lori Johnston
12 min readJun 1, 2020
Bobby Kent in 1992

“. . . They should be ashamed of what they did.”

On July 13, 1993, a group of six teen girls and boys from the pleasant community of Hollywood, Florida, a middle class suburb of Fort Lauderdale, gathered at a local Pizza Hut, as many do during the carefree days of summer. This congregation, however, wasn’t meeting up to nosh and socialize but to discuss how they were going to commit murder.

Their…

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Lori Johnston

Writer, reader, margarita drinker. Currently looking for a “dare to be great” situation.