Brandon Gray, 31, of New Kensington, was found in severe medical distress at the New Stanton Garden Inn on a March night in 2015 after suffering a gunshot wound to the trunk. He was taken to Forbes Hospital in Monroeville and pronounced dead less than an hour later. State police treated the case as a homicide, concluding Gray had been shot during an armed robbery that arose out of a drug transaction at the motel.

Investigators say the shooting occurred after a dispute following a purchase of crack cocaine in Gray’s room; prosecutors later described the episode as tied to a turf war between rival dealers. Within days, authorities arrested 17-year-old Christopher Joseph Smarr of McKeesport and charged him as an adult with criminal homicide, robbery, receiving stolen property, and an unlicensed firearms violation. A jury trial in 2016 resulted in convictions and a sentence of 45 years to life; an appeal was later rejected on review.

Does anyone have information about Gray’s movements that night or about the motel where the transaction took place?