Saturday, October 1st 2005 Rufus Junior Fields shooting On October 1, 2005, Rufus Junior Fields was found fatally shot in his vehicle in the 4700 Block of 9th Street East, Bradenton. Fields’ had been traveling south in his silver Lexus on 9th St. E.. Witnesses saw two Hispanic males, who were standing next to a white truck fire shots at Fields’ car; the car traveled a short distance, then left the roadway and crashed into a tree in the center median. One man was seen running from the area; no one saw what happened to the white truck.