On May 16, 2021, Frederick Rumble, a 45-year-old Black man, was found in a vehicle in Iowa City with gunshot wounds after a report of a car crash. Emergency responders treated him, but he died of his injuries. What began as a suspicious death investigation was quickly reclassified as a homicide.

The Iowa City Police Department opened an investigation, but the circumstances that led to the shooting were not made public as the inquiry began. Family and friends remembered Rumble in the days after his death, and no public information about persons of interest, suspects, or arrests has been released.

If anyone witnessed the crash or the events leading up to it, or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.