On the evening of February 29, 2024, Christopher Joyce, a 20-year-old Black man from Statesboro, Georgia, was found dead in a Days Inn room alongside 23-year-old Jamaryce Mincey. Hotel management discovered the two men during a welfare check; both had sustained fatal gunshot wounds and police described the incident as a double homicide.

Investigators identified a single suspect, 20-year-old Kentaevious Raeshon Davis. Security camera footage placed Davis leaving the motel room, and officers later arrested him in Tattnall County on March 6, 2024. A Glock 9mm recovered from Davis’s girlfriend’s car was forensically linked to 13 spent casings found at the scene. A forensic pathologist testified that Mincey suffered a single gunshot to the head while Joyce had been shot more than 10 times in his upper body, including arms, back, and head. Toxicology showed dimethylpentylone and pentylone or their isomers in both victims’ systems, and testimony referenced use of bath salts.

Christopher Joyce was known to family as Tootie. If anyone was in or near the Days Inn on February 29, 2024, or has information about the victims’ movements that evening, please come forward with what was seen or heard.