Aaron Suttle, 47, of Springfield, Illinois, was shot at Lincoln’s Lodge Hotel in the 300 block of North Dirksen Parkway on March 18, 2024. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival; an autopsy on March 19 confirmed the gunshot wound as the cause of death. The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office and Coroner’s Office opened an investigation and submitted multiple items of evidence to the Illinois State Police Crime Lab for testing while detectives work to locate and identify witnesses.

On March 26, 2024, Dontreal L. Spencer Jr., 31, of Springfield, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service Violent Fugitive Task Force and sheriff’s detectives at a residence in the 1600 block of South 14th Street. He was taken to the Sangamon County Jail and charged with three counts of First Degree Murder, Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, and Possession of a Weapon by a Felon; he was on parole at the time for prior convictions. Suttle’s family, led by his mother Ycillia Suttle, launched a fundraiser to help transport his body to Chicago for burial and asked the public for information.

If anyone has information about Aaron Suttle’s death or witnessed anything near Lincoln’s Lodge Hotel on March 18, please come forward to investigators.