On November 18, 2017, 21-year-old Xavier Jordan Shepley, a Black / African American man, was killed in his Ames, Iowa apartment after inviting a woman he had been communicating with on Snapchat to his home. Two women, Albrea R. Winfrey and Jordan N. Bryant, arrived and one left the door unlocked so two masked men waiting outside could enter. A gunman demanded Shepley’s belongings, struck him in the head with the firearm, and during a struggle the weapon discharged, striking him in the upper torso. Shepley was taken to Mary Greeley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators used social media communications and surveillance video to identify four people involved. In February 2019 Albrea R. Winfrey, Jordan N. Bryant, Anthony E. English and Demario D. Woods were charged with first-degree murder; at that time Bryant, English and Woods were in custody on unrelated charges and Winfrey was arrested and held on a million-dollar cash bond. If anyone knew Xavier or saw activity around his apartment on November 18, 2017, please share what was seen with investigators.