A motel dispute in Elkton, Maryland ended in fatal violence on March 5, 2021. Ushaben Dilipbhai Patel, 59, co-owner of the New Eastern Motel, and her husband Dilipbhai Ishvarbhai Patel, 59, were working in the lobby when an argument over a room rental with a guest turned violent. Surveillance footage reportedly shows the argument through a plexiglass partition and the guest firing a gun. Ushaben sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the chest; her husband was critically wounded in the lower torso.

The couple had emigrated from Gujarat, India, about two decades earlier and had owned the motel where their two sons also worked. The alleged shooter was identified as 26-year-old Hakeem Markel Evans of Newark, Delaware; he fled but was arrested nearby a short time later and charged in connection with the attack.

Who in the Elkton area might have seen the argument or has information about that night?