MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, that Crime Stoppers of Marion County is offering rewards of up to $9,500 for information leading to arrests in the unsolved but potentially related 2022 murders of area 16-year-olds Kent Patterson, Jr. and Kenneth Carr, Jr.
Patterson was found dead from a gunshot wound in the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, in a residence on the 4700 block of W. HWY 318 in Citra.
Three months later, nearly to the day, Carr’s body was discovered adjacent to Patterson’s grave in Campground Cemetery in Reddick on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. Carr had also been shot…