On the evening of April 2, 2022, 27-year-old Darrell Lamont Sims II was outside an apartment building near 24th Street and Elliot Avenue South in Minneapolis when a man approached and opened fire. Sims was struck in the chest, ran from the attacker, collapsed in a nearby backyard, and died the next morning at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Security camera footage captured the encounter. The video showed a gunman, later identified as Dajohn Cortez Ramon Yarborough, shooting at Sims with a handgun fitted with an extended magazine while another armed man, Brian Pierre Swearegene, accompanied him. Investigators recovered ten spent cartridge casings at the scene, and confidential informants helped identify Yarborough from the surveillance images.

Authorities charged Yarborough with second-degree murder and illegal possession of a firearm in June 2022; his whereabouts were then unknown. Swearegene was arrested in September 2022 and charged with second-degree murder with intent and possession of a firearm. He later told police he was one of the men in the footage and said the shooting was retaliation for the killing of an associate of Yarborough’s a few weeks earlier.

If anyone knew Darrell Sims or has information about the events that night, please share what you know.