Tara Ann Bryan, 38, was shot at the Southland Motel on East Louisville Avenue in Atmore, Alabama, on the evening of May 17, 2023. Officers found her in a motel room with critical gunshot wounds; she was airlifted to a trauma center and died of those injuries on May 22, 2023.

Police identified Luis Trevizo Becerra as a suspect and issued a statewide alert. Troopers with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency arrested him along Interstate 65 near Evergreen. After Bryan’s death, charges against Becerra were upgraded to murder and he was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center without bond.

Bryan’s family remembered her as a beautiful, happy soul who loved spending time with friends and family and is survived by her son, parents, and several siblings. If anyone has information about Tara’s last night at the Southland Motel or the events leading up to May 17, please come forward.