On the night of September 26, 2023, 32-year-old Christopher Ambrister was shot and killed at a Motel 6 on North Military Highway in Norfolk, Virginia. Police responded to a call about 11:20 p.m. and found Ambrister with a life-threatening gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage from the motel shows two men, identified as Isaiah K. Roberson, then 26, and Gavin M. Kearney, then 21, arriving in a vehicle, walking to the back of the motel and encountering Ambrister. The video records a physical confrontation in which Kearney punches Ambrister. After Ambrister briefly scuffled from the ground and rose, Roberson produced a firearm and shot him in the back. Ambrister ran toward the motel lobby, where Roberson fired a second shot that struck him in the arm and chest; Ambrister collapsed and died just outside the lobby door as the two men fled.

A third person, 19-year-old Shanasia A. Lyles, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. The three were later located at another motel in the Ocean View area and arrested. A jury convicted Isaiah K. Roberson of first-degree murder and the use of a firearm; Gavin M. Kearney later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of misdemeanor assault and battery.

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