Craig Ainsworth, 27, was shot and killed the evening of August 23, 2010, near 13th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland. Ainsworth collapsed near De Lauer’s newsstand and was pronounced dead after being taken to Highland Hospital.

McCurty was arrested in Richmond days after the shooting and charged with murder; he was held without bail. The Alameda County District Attorney’s office characterized the confrontation as mutual verbal hostility rather than one-sided. The killing was reported amid a broader spike in homicides in Oakland at that time.