Darren Lorenzo Barnes Jr., 31, was shot dead shortly after midnight on February 2, 2021, inside an apartment at Emerald Pointe Apartments in St. Petersburg, Florida. Police found Barnes deceased at the scene; another man was shot and taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Authorities identified Cornelius Trevion Whitfield, known as Cornbread, as the suspect in Barnes’s murder and the attempted murder of the other victim. Whitfield, who had been released from prison in November 2020, was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 145 pounds and was considered armed and dangerous. Police believed he remained in the St. Petersburg area and offered a reward for information leading to his arrest while detectives worked to determine a motive.

Barnes’s family and friends remembered him as kind-hearted and humble; his funeral services were held at New Pleasant Grove. Does anyone with information about that night or Whitfield’s whereabouts in early February 2021 have tips to share?