On the evening of April 28, 2021, Tommy Curry, a 31-year-old Black man from Iowa City, Iowa, was found inside his vehicle at the Meadow Lark Apartments on Lakeside Drive with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a man approach Curry’s vehicle, open fire, then flee in a white SUV.

Investigators determined Curry had been communicating for more than three months with what he believed was a woman on a dating website; that online persona was created and maintained by Renard Winfield Jr., 29, of Gary, Indiana. Text messages show Curry was lured to the apartment complex that night to meet the purported woman. Phone and cell records linked the dating profile and phone number to Winfield and placed him in the vicinity of the shooting. Surveillance showed a white Dodge Journey registered to a relative of Winfield in Iowa City on and before the day of the murder; a search of Winfield’s phone after arrest reportedly recovered screenshots of Curry’s dating profile and a video of Winfield with a gun believed to be the murder weapon.

Winfield was arrested on May 15, 2021, and charged with first-degree murder. If anyone knew Curry, the people he communicated with online, or has information about the events that night, please share what is known.