On May 16, 2018, thirty-seven-year-old Joshua Lee McDaniel was found with a gunshot wound on the third-floor walkway of the Welcome Inn motel in Blue Springs, Missouri, and later died of his injuries. Investigators say the shooting followed a confrontation between McDaniel and another motel resident, 44-year-old Marvin M. Belk.

Belk had been at work when he was reportedly called by his wife and a neighbor about a man at the motel allegedly threatening his family. He returned to the motel, retrieved a handgun from his room, and went to the third floor to confront McDaniel. Belk walked outside and surrendered to arriving officers; a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and a magazine were recovered from his person.

Prosecutors charged Marvin M. Belk with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. McDaniel was described by his family as a devoted husband to his wife Jessica and father of two sons who worked as a driver for a concrete company and enjoyed Marvel movies, scary films, pool, music and fishing.

Did anyone at the motel that day see or hear what led to the confrontation?