Late on Sunday, January 7, 2024, gunfire was reported at the Beverly Motel on Government Boulevard in Mobile, Alabama. Officers who responded found 27-year-old Creston Marks inside a motel room with a fatal gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Mobile Police Department identified 25-year-old Rosevelt Richardson of Prichard as a suspect and took him into custody the next day, January 8, 2024. Richardson was charged with murder in connection with Marks’s death and with being a certain person forbidden to possess a firearm. He was booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail as the investigation continued.

Are there witnesses who were in or near the Beverly Motel that night who can provide information about what happened?