Joshua Briggs, 22, was shot and killed inside a room at the Holiday Inn Express on Boston Street in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in the early morning of October 17, 2017. Investigators say the killing occurred during an armed robbery and home invasion: a dispute earlier in the night led hotel staff to remove several people from the room, and at about 4:15 AM some of those individuals returned with at least one other person and forced their way back in, intending to steal cash, jewelry, and firearms. Briggs sustained a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

By December 2017 four men — James Coleman, 26; John Collins, 24; Errin Crawford, 29; and Michael Reynolds, 24 — had been arrested and indicted by a Suffolk County Grand Jury on first-degree murder, armed robbery, and armed home invasion charges. A fifth man, Randy Cannon, 26, known as Randy Boy, turned himself in in April 2018 and faced the same charges. Reports indicate at least two of the men were armed and that all five were implicated in the robbery that resulted in Briggs’s death.

If anyone was in or near the hotel that night or has information about the people who returned to the room around 4:15 AM, please share what is known.