On a Saturday afternoon in March 2014, 50-year-old Vincent Newsome was shot multiple times on the second-floor breezeway of the InTown Suites on U.S. 78 near Snellville, where he lived. He had been washing his vehicle in the parking lot earlier that day and was headed upstairs before the confrontation. Emergency services took Newsome to Gwinnett Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.

Witnesses reported seeing the confrontation, and Gwinnett County Police homicide detectives were on the scene that day. Two days after the killing, Philip Pugh was arrested in Mississippi. Pugh had previously filed a police report weeks earlier accusing Newsome of raping his wife; his wife said she and her husband had been drugged in a motel room and that she had seen a cellphone video allegedly showing Newsome assaulting her. The Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office said no evidence was found to substantiate that rape claim.

In April 2017 a jury convicted Philip Pugh of Vincent Newsome’s murder and found him guilty but mentally ill; he was sentenced to life in prison. Does anyone have information about Vincent’s time at the motel or the confrontation that afternoon?