Kimberly Lashay Tarver, 33, was found dead of a gunshot wound on a playground in a park on 33rd Street in Columbus, Georgia, in the early morning of April 24, 2019. Surveillance and witness accounts place her leaving a Marathon gas station in the 3400 block of Veterans Parkway at about 5:00 a.m., then walking into the nearby park where an unknown man followed her and was seen with her in the last moments captured on camera.

Police later released footage showing a Black male, estimated 25 to 40 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall and 160 to 200 pounds, with facial hair, wearing a dark jacket, blue jeans, black shoes or boots and a green ball cap. Witnesses on bicycles reportedly saw the incident and identified the man on the gas station surveillance, but his identity remains unknown and the homicide is unsolved.

Kimberly was born August 15, 1985, in Russell County, Alabama, and was a mother to eight children; her family buried her May 4, 2019. Anyone who knew Kimberly or who can identify the man in the surveillance footage is asked to come forward.