In the pre-dawn hours of January 30, 2021, a shooting in the parking lot of the Plaza Inn and Suites on Dual Highway in Hagerstown, Maryland, left Roderick Rashan White dead. Officers responding at about 4:40 AM found White, a 40-year-old Black man from Greensboro, North Carolina, with an apparent gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives and the Western Maryland Crime Lab processed the parking lot as part of a homicide investigation. The inquiry led to the arrest of Ty’Zeon Myjzour Shipman of High Point, North Carolina; Shipman was charged with first-degree murder and other related offenses in connection with White’s death.

White’s family and the community were left grieving after the killing. If anyone saw activity at the motel that morning or has information that could help investigators, please come forward.