Wilanna Simone Bibbs was a 20-year-old aspiring singer from Durham, North Carolina, who was shot and killed inside a Davenport, Iowa, residence on May 9, 2021. She had been dating songwriter Justin Lamont Wright, known professionally as J. Wright, after moving to Atlanta to pursue music. The couple traveled to Davenport that weekend; the day she died was Mother’s Day and Bibbs had sent her mother a morning text before attempts to reach her later went unanswered.

Police were dispatched about 1:25 p.m. to a disturbance in the 1500 block of Calvin Street where officers found Bibbs with a gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities quickly focused on Wright, who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and accused in an affidavit of deliberately and with premeditation shooting Bibbs. Wright pleaded not guilty on June 24, 2021.

The trial began March 28, 2023; on April 10, 2023, a Scott County jury found Wright guilty of first-degree murder, and he received the mandatory life sentence without parole. At sentencing, Bibbs’ father said the killing followed a dispute about $70. Does anyone have information about Wilanna’s time in Atlanta or the days leading up to her death?