Brian Chambers, 54, known as B-Train and the traveling tattoo artist behind Bad Monkey Tattoo, was found unresponsive in his room at the Budget Motor Inn on Jamestown Road in Petersburg. A single gunshot wound ended his life; police received the call just after 10:30 p.m., and Chambers was pronounced dead at the scene on May 24, 2023. Friends and clients remembered him as full of life and amazingly talented.

Petersburg police opened a murder investigation after the killing. Authorities later charged Raymond Ruffin with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with Chambers’s death.

Did anyone in Petersburg or the tattoo community have contact with Brian around May 24, 2023, or information that could help clarify what happened that night?