On March 27, 2025, 21-year-old Alabama State University student Gennia Grimes was shot on U.S. Highway 80 East in the Waugh community of Pike Road, Alabama. Grimes, a junior from Georgia majoring in criminal justice and a member of the Honey Beez dance team, was airlifted to a local hospital and died of her injuries. Her boyfriend, Rogers McCloud Jr., initially reported the death as a suicide, but the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office investigation found evidence inconsistent with that account.

McCloud, 20, was in the vehicle with Grimes when the shooting occurred. Authorities say his statements conflicted with other evidence, and investigators treating the incident as domestic violence focused on him. Prosecutors arrested McCloud on April 4, 2025, charging him with capital murder; he is being held without bond. Investigators presented videos at a preliminary hearing showing a gun on Grimes’s shoulder with a message from McCloud’s phone and another video of Grimes bleeding without a gun visible. The couple had been together about two years and had a young son; family members say Grimes planned to end the relationship after discovering something on McCloud’s phone and that McCloud had damaged her property. A GoFundMe was created to help with funeral expenses and the child’s care.

Does anyone have information about Gennia, her movements that day, or the Waugh community that could help investigators?