Hunter
12/05/24
A 33-year-old man accused of catfishing an Iowa City man and shooting him to death in 2021 is on trial this week.
The Gazette reports Renard Winfield Jr., of Gary, Indiana, was arrested and charged after police say he posed as a woman online, luring Tommy Curry to the Meadowlark Apartment Complex on the southeast side of Iowa City April 21st of that year before approaching his vehicle and shooting him multiple times.
Jury selection was completed Wednesday.
Evidence includes surveillance video which allegedly shows Winfield fleeing the apartment complex in a vehicle registered to his mother. Prosecutors said phone records and videos will show Winfield was in Iowa City around the time of the crime, brandishing a 9mm pistol.
Winfield is charged with first-degree murder, which is punishable up to life in prison. The jury has been instructed they can convict Winfield of lesser charges including 2nd degree murder and voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.