On the night of January 15, 2016, an 18-year-old named Martell Benton-Bridgett was shot multiple times in the upper body during a party on the seventh floor of the Holiday Inn Express in Green Tree, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The shooting was reported at about 11 p.m.; emergency services transported Benton-Bridgett to a local hospital where he later died. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed the cause of death to gunshot wounds to the chest.

Allegheny County homicide investigators immediately opened an inquiry. Several people who had attended the party were detained and questioned in the early hours, but a clear motive did not emerge. As of late 2020, no arrests or specific suspects have been publicly announced and the case remained open and under investigation.

If anyone was at that party or has information about the events on the seventh floor that night, please come forward to the Allegheny County Police.