On the night of August 20, 2019, 45-year-old Derrick Purnell Terrell was shot multiple times and found dead in the parking lot of the Knight’s Inn motel in western Shreveport, Louisiana. The shooting followed a dispute connected to a woman Terrell had been seeing, Tamala Ware, who had a room at the motel. Video and witness accounts show the disagreement escalated into a chase through the motel before the fatal shooting.

After the killing, two men fled the scene and left in separate vehicles; one, identified as Jonathan Crenshaw, drove off in Terrell’s vehicle, which was later found burned, while the other, Terence Felix Jr., left in his truck. Surveillance footage reportedly showed Tamala Ware standing beside Terrell’s vehicle and helping remove its license plate shortly before the shooting; she has been arrested. Crenshaw and Felix were also arrested within days, and all three were charged with second-degree murder.

What further details about the motive or the sequence inside the motel are still missing to fully explain why this dispute turned deadly?