Donte M. Hammond, a 21-year-old Black man from Newark, Delaware, was killed during a burst of gunfire inside the Red Roof Inn at 1119 South College Avenue in the early morning of August 18, 2019. Newark police began getting reports of shots at about 12:56 a.m. and were directed to a second-floor room where Hammond was found with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers began lifesaving measures but he was pronounced dead at the hotel. The Delaware Division of Forensic Science later ruled the death a homicide.

Investigators learned a second person, from Wilmington, had been wounded in the same shooting and taken to a hospital in a private vehicle; that injury was described as not life-threatening. Police did not release a description of a shooter, identify any person of interest, or say whether a weapon, shell casings or surveillance footage had been recovered. Authorities also did not publicly describe what the surviving victim told investigators or whether Hammond was targeted, and the case remained unsolved one year later.

If anyone was at the Red Roof Inn that night or has information about the shooting, can you help investigators piece together what happened?