Joseph Rodgers was 46 and lived in Portsmouth, Virginia. He was found shot to death in a stairwell of the Red Roof Inn on Northampton Boulevard in Virginia Beach on the morning of Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Rodgers was also known as Jo-Jo.

Police opened a homicide investigation and looked into an earlier call about shots fired just after midnight that same morning from the Americas Best Value Inn next door; officers who responded to that call did not find anything. Detectives searched the Red Roof Inn scene, spoke with motel guests and planned to review past police responses to both motels to see if the incidents were connected.

As of March 2014 the investigation remained active and the shooting remained unsolved. If anyone was staying at either motel that night or saw activity on Northampton Boulevard before dawn on March 12, investigators would welcome hearing from you.