Bobby Kent (né Khayam; May 12, 1973 – July 14, 1993) was a 20-year-old American man who was murdered by seven people, including his best friend, Martin Joseph "Marty" Puccio Jr (born March 21, 1973) in Weston, Florida.

Frequent gym-goers, both boys were rumored to use steroids, which, in Kent's case, according to testimonial accounts, significantly contributed to his erratic, aggressive behavior.

[citation needed] Kent and Puccio had experimented with making gay porn movies, hoping to distribute them to local shops.

None took him up on the offer, due to the poor audio and video quality as well as the lack of any sexual activities in the film beyond the man dancing nude and playing with a dildo.

[1]: 82–83 Allegedly, Connelly decided that Kent needed to be eliminated permanently, and began talking to Puccio and other friends about murdering him.

[1]: 98 [5] Connelly had brought along her mother's pistol, intending to kill Kent while he was distracted by sexual activity with Willis, but was unable to go through with shooting him.

Seeking assistance, she contacted a self-proclaimed hitman named Derek Kaufman (aged 20), who had been recommended by a friend of Willis.

[1]: 123  The group continued to discuss their plans, and ultimately decided to go ahead with murdering Kent the next night, with Kaufman's assistance.

Puccio contacted Kent and convinced him to come out with the group that night, with the promise that they would race their cars and that Willis wanted to have sex with him again.

Together, the two mothers called in their brother, Joe Scrima (uncle to the young Connelly and Dzvirko), who had friends in the police department and who they thought would know what to do.

[1]: 206  Scrima's friends put them in touch with Detective Frank Ilarraza of the Broward County Sheriff's Office, and a cooperative Dzvirko confessed everything.

[1]: 208–211 Of the seven perpetrators, three will be in Florida prisons for life: The remaining four perpetrators had all been released from Florida prisons by February 2004: Jim Schutze, a reporter with the Houston Chronicle,[31] wrote the 1997 best-selling true crime book Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge.