On the night of Sunday, February 12, 2017, a concert at the Hotel Davenport on Brady Street in Davenport, Iowa, ended in gunfire shortly before 1 a.m. Marques Cotton, 29, a Black man from Peoria, Illinois, was wounded in the shooting and died after being taken to a local hospital. Another person was also injured that night.

Attendees reported the advertised R&B artist never took the stage as the violence unfolded. Davenport police responded to reports of shots fired and opened an active investigation, asking the public for information to help identify those responsible.

If anyone attended that event or has information about what happened that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.