Hill was remembered by his family as down-to-earth, selfless, and curious.

Hill’s mom, Sharay Gay, described her son as “super respectful,” “born with an old soul,” and “almost like Superman,” with the way he took care of his daughters and helped Gay take care of her two grandsons.

Hill grew up in Sylacauga and Alexander City, Alabama, which Hill’s younger sister Breanna Manley described as a small town “where everybody knows everybody.” Outside of the guard, Hill worked as an electronics technician at a local hospital and did a stint at the Sylacauga fire department.

Hill also went by the nickname “Bobby,” which he got while working at a Honda plant in Lincoln, Alabama. The factory gave out uniforms with random names and Hill got one that happened to be Bobby, which people connected to the character Bobby Hill from the cartoon, “King of the Hill,” so “it just kind of stuck,” Manley said.

Manley remembered growing up with her brother as a “quirky character” with “a hodgepodge” of varying interests.

“I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said ‘a genius,’” his stepmother Amy Hill said. “He was always willing to learn and constantly researching things just because he wanted to know it.”

Though Hill played football and wrestled in high school, he was also tech-savvy and often had a book in his hands — sometimes to his detriment.

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