On September 15, 2014, a maid at the Knights Inn on Panola Road in Lithonia, Georgia, found two bodies in a motel room: 34-year-old Nathaniel Dumas, an African American man, and 31-year-old Marquita Smith. Both had been shot and were believed to have been dead for some time before discovery. The DeKalb County Police Department opened a homicide investigation and the bodies were sent to the medical examiner for autopsy.

In January 2015 authorities announced an arrest as part of Operation Safe DeKalb 2015. Forty-six-year-old Derrick Hepson was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Dumas and Smith. Officials have not publicly disclosed a motive or the relationship, if any, between Hepson and the victims.

Does anyone have information about Nathaniel Dumas, his movements in Lithonia in 2014, or details that could shed light on what led to this double homicide?