Patrick P. McDonough, a 40-year-old man active in southwestern Ohio poker circles and a dealer at the Orioles Club in West Carrollton, was fatally shot on the evening of Monday, November 5, 2007, outside the In-Town Suites on Kingsridge Drive in Miamisburg. Witnesses say he parked and was walking toward the motel entrance between 9:00 and 9:05 p.m. when a man in all black with a hooded sweatshirt emerged, closed to within five to eight feet and fired a single shot to McDonough’s forehead before fleeing on foot to a dark-colored late-1990s Chevrolet Tahoe driven by another man.

Investigators described McDonough as a private person who hadn’t seen his family in about four years and associated only through poker; detectives found no evidence of debts or grudges. Witness accounts varied on the shooter’s features, though he was generally reported as short and stocky under loose clothing. The recovered slug was preserved for future comparison, but no arrests were ever made and the case went cold as of November 2007.

Does anyone who knew McDonough from the poker community or recalls seeing a dark Tahoe near Kingsridge Drive that night have information to share?