On the evening of August 20, 2019, the parking lot of the Knights Inn motel on West Monkhouse Drive in Shreveport, Louisiana, was the scene of a fatal shooting. Responding officers found 45-year-old Derrick Purnell Terrell of Shreveport suffering multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene and an autopsy was ordered.

Investigators identified multiple people believed to be involved. Surveillance allegedly showed Tamala Triciann Ware, who lived with Terrell, near his vehicle helping two men remove the license plate just before the shooting; she was arrested August 22, 2019. Warrants named Terence Felix Jr., 29, and Johnathan Crenshaw, 34, as the other suspects; both were later taken into custody in Abbeville. All three were charged with second-degree murder, Ware booked into Caddo Correctional Center, and Felix and Crenshaw held with bond set at $750,000 each.

Anyone who saw activity around the Knights Inn that night or knew Derrick Terrell’s movements that evening is asked to come forward with information.