Haywood

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. Relationship between Haywood and Sowemimo Haywood and Sowemimo started out as coworkers. They developed some sort of personal relationship significant enough that Sowemimo bought a car for Haywood to use. In late winter and early spring 2021, they had a “falling out.” B. Sowemimo’s campaign of harassment prior to August 2021 In the spring and summer of 2021, Haywood started receiving emails and text messages. On March 30, 2021, which was Sowemimo’s birthday, Haywood received a text message from an unknown phone number, in which the sender expressed his “love” for Haywood and his “disappoint[ment]” that things ended “on [his] birthday,” and promised that he did not “judge I’m not God.”1 Five weeks later, on May 5, 2021, Haywood received a text message from a second unknown number, urging him to “always remember that” “you reap what you sow” and calling

1 All errors in grammar, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization in the messages quoted herein appear in the exhibits of those messages.

2 Haywood’s girlfriend “that bitch.” Two weeks later, Sowemimo showed up to Haywood’s residence unannounced to repossess the car he…