On the morning of Sunday, September 18, 2022, Marcelius Likely, 34, was shot in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia, and later pronounced dead at J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital. The shooting occurred about 3:07 a.m. while Likely was seated in the rear of a parked vehicle on the 200 block of Walnut Street with a female companion; both were struck and the vehicle’s driver drove them to the hospital. The female was treated for her injuries; her name was not released.

A Morgantown police officer witnessed the shooting and pursued the gunman on foot. Other officers joined and apprehended a suspect, later identified as 34-year-old Eric Alastaire Sneed of Pennsylvania, near a Chestnut Street parking garage. Police recovered the handgun believed to be the weapon. Sneed was charged with first-degree murder and malicious assault and held without bond. Investigators reported the two men were known to one another and had a history of violent encounters; Likely had previously been identified as a suspected shooter in a 2008 bar incident. Did anyone see or hear anything that night near Walnut Street that could help clarify what happened?