Venecia Miranda Woodruff, a 49-year-old Black woman, was shot at a Red Roof Inn on Pottery Road in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on the evening of December 19, 2022. Deputies responded to a distress call about 7:30 p.m. and found Woodruff with a gunshot wound. She was taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center but died during surgery.

Both Woodruff and 46-year-old Keith Anthony Jones were staying at the motel. Jones placed a 911 call saying someone had shot his baby, which initially misled first responders about the victim’s identity. Investigators recovered a firearm and relied on an eyewitness account and hotel surveillance footage as part of their evidence. Jones was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime; authorities did not disclose a motive.

Did anyone see Venecia or the two individuals at the motel that evening who could add details to the timeline?