In the late hours of February 23, 2020, 37-year-old Lavar Quanne Ellis was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in a room at the Stone Mountain Inn and Suites on Mountain Industrial Boulevard in Tucker, Georgia. DeKalb County officers discovered him alone in the motel room just before midnight after what investigators describe as a violent encounter.

Investigators say the shooting followed an attempted robbery that turned into an exchange of gunfire. Ellis and another man, 36-year-old William Legrand of Snellville, were both struck; Ellis died at the scene while Legrand drove himself to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. After treatment, Legrand was arrested and charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit robbery and booked into the DeKalb County Jail.

Are there witnesses or anyone who was in that motel that night who can shed more light on how the confrontation began?